“Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.
Williams last words to his friend Lamoral of Egmont after he said to him; „Farewell prince without a land”, as written in ‚Uilenspiegel’ by Charles de Coster
“Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed.”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Quoted from Elst, Koenraad. Hindu dharma and the culture wars. (2019). New Delhi : Rupa.
Sandra Day O'Connor (1930) Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Striking down Ten Commandments displays in two county courthouses in Kentucky in McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union, 545 U.S. 844 (2005) (concurring)
“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”
Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894) Indian judge
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 2 : The Liberty of Thought and Discussion
“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
From William Bruce Cameron's Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963), p. 13. The comment is part of a longer paragraph and does not appear in quotations in Cameron's book, and other sources http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22%20cameron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp such as The Student's Companion to Sociology (p. 92) http://books.google.com/books?id=KMsB1GE8dBEC&lpg=PA92&dq=%22Not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q=%22Not%20everything%20that%20can%20be%20counted%20counts%22&f=false attribute the quote to Cameron. A number of recent books http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=bks:1&q=%22not+everything+that+can+be+counted%22+einstein+princeton&start=0&sa=N claim that Einstein had a sign with these words in his office in Princeton, but until a reliable historical source can be found to support this, skepticism is warranted. The earliest source on Google Books that mentions the quote in association with Einstein and Princeton is Charles A. Garfield's 1986 book Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business, in which he wrote on p. 156: <br class="br">: Albert Einstein liked to underscore the micro/macro partnership with a remark from Sir George Pickering that he chalked on the blackboard in his office at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." <br class="br">Misattributed
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities" (1932); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 92.
Extra-judicial writings
Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943) Indian Muslim scholar
Ashraf Ali Thānwī, Hayātul Muslimeen p.71