Ballot Measure

Famous quotes containing the words ballot and/or measure:

    “Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do not scorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    “As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)