"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."

-- Mario Vargas Llosa

#Democracy Quotes #Election Quotes #Stakes Quotes

“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.
“We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.”

Source : "Mélanie". I, 1, 1770.
“No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.”
“The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.”
“I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.”
“In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.”
“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

Source : Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.
“Life is the flash in black heavens.”

Source : Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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