"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
-Charles Bukowski
timeView Quote
"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.“
-Charles Bukowski
posted in history
Other Quotes
Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
-Charles Bukowski
romanticView Quote
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
-Charles Bukowski
politicsView Quote
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
-Charles Bukowski
goodView Quote
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
-Charles Bukowski
artView Quote
"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
-Charles Bukowski
aloneView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
historyView Quote
"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
historyView Quote
"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
historyView Quote
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
historyView Quote
"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
historyView Quote
"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
historyView Quote