I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We live in a democratic society that allows me to fight the revolution in the corridors of power. — Bez Copy Share Image
“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Democracy doesn’t give everything, but it grants the freedom to be yourself and pursue what you need.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to build a truly… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith,… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive.… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society. — Ma Ying-jeou Copy Share Image
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
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