David Grant > David's Quotes

“a collision at sea will ruin your entire day”
― thucydides

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election. -- Aristotle, Politics, Book IV”
― Aristotle, The Politics of Aristotle: Books I-V : A Revised Text

“In a democratic republic, to make the universal franchise truly universal, sortition (not election but random selection) seems to be the way.”
― David Grant