"Αδύνατο να μάθεις τα φρονήματα, τη σκέψη, την ψυχή του κάθε ανθρώπου, προτού πάρει στα χέρια του εξουσία."
--Σοφοκλής
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
--E.B. White
"Politics can be defined as the art and science of attaining and maintaining power at any cost."
--Vijay K. Beri
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
--Voltaire
"From each, according to his ability; to each, according
to his need."
--Karl Marx
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of
blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing
of miseries."
--Winston Churchill
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
--Adlai Stevenson
"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for
the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they
came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for
me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."
--Pastor Marton Niemoller
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors."
--Plato
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's
just the opposite."
--John Kenneth Galbraith