Dittatura

La dittatura perfetta avrà sembianza di democrazia, una prigione senza muri nella quale i prigionieri non sogneranno mai di fuggire. Un sistema di schiavitù dove, grazie al consumo e al divertimento, gli schiavi ameranno la loro schiavitù’.

Aldous Huxley

Democrazia

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

Carestie e democrazia

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence … they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. … a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have.

Amartya Sen

klochov

Non possiamo più - ci disse - ritirarci. Abbiamo Mosca alle spalle.

We can't - (s)he said - pull back. Moscow is in back of us.

Franco Fortini, Composita Solvantur