In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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