Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity— he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Even with a Democratic president behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won't care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“liberalism and democracy, with all of their limitations, are what remains after every utopia and extremist scheme based on blood and territory… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The freedoms of religion, thought and speech are all fundamental rights Canadians not only enjoy, we have fought for them at home… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army… — Margaret Case Harriman Copy Share Image
Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image