Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Speech to heads of justice of the Jamahiriya (20 May 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rM64DYglBk <br class="br">Speeches
“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.”
Video lecture at Columbia University (23 March 2006), quoted in BBC News (23 March 2006) "Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy"
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Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Voicing opposition to the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
Context: The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. The history of Soviet Russia is a modern example of this ancient practice. I must, in good conscience, protest against any unnecessary suppression of our rights as free men. We must not burn down the house to kill the rats.
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Talk titled "Distorted Morality" at Harvard University, February 2002 http://www.chomsky.info/talks/200202--02.htm. <br class="br">Quotes 2000s, 2002 <br class="br">Context: Remember, the U. S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.
“The whole planet is the museum!”
Genesis P-Orridge (1950) British musician and writer
Speaking with Douglas Rushkoff (Arthur No. 2 c.Jan 2003) http://arthurmag.com/2010/10/28/douglas-rushkoff-and-genesis-p-orridge-conversation-2003/
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
Gerald of Wales (1146) Medieval clergyman and historian
John S Brewer Giraldi Cambrensis Opera Vol. 1 (1861), p. xl.
Criticism
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/nov/11/parliament-bill#column_206 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Variant: Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. <br class="br">Context: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
“I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.”
Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Interview, live at Coachella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMwcXBePqE <br class="br">Context: I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.
“Even in comparison to out sister world [Venus], our home planet is exceptional.”
Shawna Vogel science writer
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)