Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
We don't want to govern the country without democratic institutions. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
“Our celebrated democratic institutions tackle the issue of hazardous science with a deafening silence. There is no such issue!” — Yuval Kanev, Helpless Earth: Reckless Science Copy Share Image
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
What we are lacking in Burma is an independence effective judiciary, and unless we have all three of the democratic institutions -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The slightest sign of stability is used by local authoritarian leaders to bargain for the sympathies of Western countries that are, for… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a… — William Weld Copy Share Image
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation. — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
No matter which party is in the White House, doubt in America's democratic institutions rattles our nation to its core. This should… — Patrick Murphy Copy Share Image
The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people;… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
After all, our Constitution was intended as a popular document. It was drafted and ratified by the people. It established democratic institutions.… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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