Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
Richard Bach

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Booker T. Washington

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Chuck Palahniuk

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Richard Branson

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson