In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
— Mogens Jallberg  ·  Democracy

📚 名句词汇解析

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vote [vot] 词频2
v. 投票，选举;提议;投票表决;公认，由舆论决定; n. 投票，表决;投票数;投票权;决议;
💡 vot发誓+e→投票前需要发誓以示诚实→投票
"All affiliated members can vote."
所有隶属成员都有投票权。
近义：poll, ballot, elect
count [kaʊnt] 词频1 词根: 计算
n. 总数;数数;罪状;论点; v. 数数;计算总数;把…算入;重要;
💡 count(to count)→数；计算；包括；以为；信赖；有价值
"Billy can't count yet."
比利还不会数数。
近义：list, number, numerate, recite, reckon, recount
democracy [də'mɑkrəsi] 词频2 词根: 民众
n. 民众;民主国家;民主主义;民主政治;
💡 demo人民+cracy统治；\"人民统治\"→人民做主→民主；民主政治，民主政体；民主主义
"the principles of democracy"
民主原则
feudalism [['fjudlˌizəm]]
n. 封建主义, 封建制度
近义：vassalage
counts
n. 计数, 支数（count的复数形式）
votes
v. 投票；提倡（vote的第三人称单数形式）

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— Jeff Melvoin
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— Alan Corenk
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
— Aristotle
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
— Art Spander
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
— H. L. Mencken
"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
— Tom Stoppard
"Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
— Laurence J. Peter
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
— Will Rogers
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