Robert Dahl Quotes & Sayings

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl. — Nnedi Okorafor

What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart. — Nirmala Srivastava

If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it? — Tess Gerritsen

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara. — Chloe Sevigny

Require ... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. — Robert A. Dahl

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered. — Robert A. Dahl

democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders; — Robert A. Dahl

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick. — Abe Lemons

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete. — Robert A. Dahl

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places. — Robert A. Dahl

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. — Robert A. Dahl

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. — Thiruman Archunan

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves. — Robert A. Dahl

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state. — Robert A. Dahl

But Anya, you're not any girl, you are someone very special. You have a gift of happiness that's almost magical".
To Anya the gentle fluttering of new life within reminded her that Adam had not only been there in Stockholm but would remain with her forever.
"It is completely possible. Idiopathic reversals of ovarian failure are well documented in the literature. — Erich Segal

The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. — Robert A. Dahl