Alexander Elzinga > Alexander's Quotes

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anais Nin

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman

“The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
― Emma Goldman

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
― Albert Einstein