In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. –Aristotle
– Cornel West
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- Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong. – Amit Kalantri
- You can’t really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] – Cornel West
- To be a Christian – a follower of Jesus Christ – is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom. – Cornel West
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- The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. – Ludwig von Mises
- Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can’t stay rich if you are poor minded. – Rafaa Khiari
- A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts – the poor or the rich! – Sandeep Sahajpal
- Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. – Ronald Rolheiser
- You can’t change things. That’s life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. – Antonia Michaelis
- Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide. – Vinita Kinra
- Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule. – Peter Mansfield
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. -“Aristotle – Aristotle
- Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- I see in Jesus not only the supreme act of humility in God, but the supreme act of humanity in God. – William Porcher Dubose
- We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. – Thomas Jefferson
- Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. – Elizabeth Grace Saunders
- Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass! – Vera Nazarian
- Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. – Aristotle
- Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical. – Elizabeth A Reeves
- The rich are poor without the poor’s acknowledgment of money. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When everyone is poor you don’t know you’re poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich. – Stan Grant
- Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time. – Auliq Ice
- Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time. – Auliq Ice
- Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support. – Debasish Mridha
- Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. – GK Chesterton
- …the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Rich people were not rich if there were no poor. – Zain Baloch
- The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. – Ann Landers
- Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money. – Alin Sav
- Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. – Alfred E Smith
- The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
- Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr
- A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt