As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
People who directly incite political violence are leaving the guardrails of constitutional democracy. — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“Believe it; 25 years from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are taking today!… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights. — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
“It's voting rights or it's the filibuster. It's LGBTQ+ rights or it's the filibuster. It's union rights or it's the filibuster. It's… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
“Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I don't think Republicans are evil. I think they mostly have a different philosophy of government than I do. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Democrats have been willing to make improvements to the ACA since its inception. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“In The Knights Aristophanes gave us a picture of the final state of corruption in which the vulgar rabble ends when--just as… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now,… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs… — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Copy Share Image
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When… — David Frum Copy Share Image
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the… — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
'Chinese Democracy' wasn't trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don't have an opinion on what… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
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