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«Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.»
Author: Hermann Goering
| About:
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
after all, along, America, attacked, bidding, brought, common people, communist, country, democracy, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, determine, dictatorship, dictatorships, drag, drag in, drag out, England, fascist, Fascists, Germany, In America, in Russia, leaders, matter to, naturally, No Policy, our policy, pacifist, pacifists, parliament, parliaments, people of England, policy, Russia, simple People, the country, The Voice of the People, this policy, understood, voice
«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
acknowledged, discrimination, legally, morally, obliged, operate, parliament, parliaments, racial, racial discrimination, represented, The Authority, trial, universally
«Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Parliament
| Keywords:
parliament, parliaments, whores
«In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.»
«Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Act of Parliament, assail, assailed, assailing, assails, bombs, incurred, incurring, incurs, knives, musicians, parliament, parliaments, penalties, pistols, placing, sticks
«I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
articles, Articles of, opposite, parliament, parliaments, perfectly, the article
«Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Fabianism, in chorus, Leader of, parliament, parliaments, the Chorus
«As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Family,
Nations,
Weakness
| Keywords:
chancery, compose, emergent, keep quiet, parliament, subsists