"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave."

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Karl Kraus

#Mean Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing,...”
“Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity”

Source : Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson
“If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.”
“It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories”

Source : "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s 'Open Veins,' on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.
“Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

Source : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.55, Cambridge University Press
“Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.”
“Beware the power of the dark side.”

Source : "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Beware the Power of the Dark Side!". Book by Tom Angleberger, September 22, 2015.

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