Sortition Quotes & Sayings

So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming. — Albert Camus

It's always easy to judge from afar — Roberto Mancini

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. — George W. Crane

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what? — Calvin Klein

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years. — Sam Yagan

I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house. — Michael Chabon

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago. — Edward Snowden

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting. — Wilbur Smith

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection. — William James

People do not lack strength, they lack will. — Victor Hugo

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation. — Walter E. Williams

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time? — Lawrence Lessig

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. — Elizabeth I