The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.” — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom. — Kane Copy Share Image
Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to see a last fight, but I am now engaged in a different fight - one that… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Do I think that American democracy ends if Trump is president? No! I think, there are plenty of checks and balances in… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu 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
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux 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
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy? — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“The OED defines democracy as: “Government by the people; that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in the people….”… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them. — Andrea Tantaros 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
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
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