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Phänomenologie des Geistes
Phänomenologie des Geistes

Pot-pourri, VI / M. de Boucacous
Pot-pourri
Original: Original franz.: "ce monde est un grand Bedlam, où des fous enchaînent d'autres fous."

Briefe
Andere und Briefe

Bundestagswahl 1965 im Stimmkreis Kitzingen

Vor der Kriegserklärung 1917. Zitiert nach: Casimir Hermann Baer (Herausgeber). Der Völkerkrieg. Eine Chronik der Ereignisse seit dem 1. Juli 1914. Band 22. Stuttgart Hoffmann 1918. S. 142
Original englisch: "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty." - s:en:Woodrow Wilson Urges Congress to Declare War on Germany 2. April 1917
Der Staat (The State, 1893), Rede vom 2. April 1917 vor beiden Häusern des Kongresses

Kulturnews 8/05

No, not one, 1941
Original engl.: "Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi."
Sonstige

II, 2. Aph. 293
Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

Demokratenspiegel. Die Korruption unter der Demokratie http://mencken.atspace.org/mencken9_2.htm
Original englisch: "Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both."
Demokratenspiegel

Tagebuch eines schlimmen Jahres

Brief an Friedrich Engels, 1869, MEW 32, S. 360

Original: (en) It's not the case ... that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. Rather ... it's the essence of democracy. ... When the state looses the bludgeon ... you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda.
Quelle: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992

Original englisch: "All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - Bayard vs. Lionheart https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21831908/hl_mencken_article_26_jul_1920_the/ in The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 1920-07-26 (dort am Ende des Artikels)

Rede an der Universität Kairo am 4. Juni 2009, Handelsblatt 4. Juni 2009 http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/barack-obama-obamas-grosses-versprechen-seite-3/3191220-3.html
Original engl.: "elections alone do not make true democracy." - s:el:A New Beginning.
Dieser Gedanke war allerdings weder neu, noch war Obama sein Urheber; vielmehr war er schon seit Jahrzehnten Gemeingut. So hatte man im SPIEGEL vom 19. März 1984 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13509577.html gelesen: "Aber Wahlen allein schaffen doch noch keine Demokratie", in einem Beitrag des Labourabgeordneten Bryan Gold zu der Debatte des britischen Unterhauses vom 25. März 1977 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1977-03-25a.1698.0: "elections alone do not guarantee democracy [...] direct elections alone cannot be equated with democracy", und in einer britischen Publikation Our Times (vol. 4, p. 164) unter dem Datum February 13-17, 1939 als Überschrift: " Elections Alone Do Not Make Democracies https://books.google.de/books?id=nPscAQAAMAAJ&q=democracies"".