I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
As California's former chief elections officer, I was proud to strengthen election security and boost voter turnout by implementing the critical reforms… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
“This is the cycle of a dynamic society. Equality is never a final state, democracy never a stable equilibrium: they are processes,… — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Democracy in contemporary society is a fake, predicated on an illusion that we are together making choices about how best to manage… — Ian Parker Copy Share Image
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Limited government is not a means to liberty, it is an end. That is to say, there are always going to be… — Richard D. Baris Copy Share Image
I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen… — Byron Goines Copy Share Image
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality… — Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
“The forces of Zion seek to hastily discard democratic practices in favor of inducing widespread anarchy, exploiting despondency, and dismantling societal structures… — Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas Copy Share Image
Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election… — Jim Bolger Copy Share Image
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Democracy, as a form of government, is utterly repugnant to—is the very antithesis of—the traditional American system: that of a Republic, as… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“It remains the hidden aim of democracy to supplant what is national, spiritual, integrating, and paternal with a chimerical system that is… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“But Yatrayavalkya! He strutted on his wheels, cursing the acharya for hogging all the limelight and holding the three chiefs of the… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of… — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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