I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Healthy democracies require healthy relationships amongst citizens and their governments. — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion. — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“Democracies can't function if their citizens don't strive, at least some of the time, to inhabit a common space, a space where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the… — S. Evan Townsend Copy Share Image
Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows. — House Peters Jr Copy Share Image
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
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