„Words without experience are meaningless.“

— Vladimir Nabokov
„We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Our whole experiment is meaningless unless we are to make this a democracy in the fullest sense of the word, in the broadest as well as the highest and deepest significance of the word. It must be made a democracy economically, as well as politically.“
— Theodore Roosevelt