Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded. — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda. — Alan Greenspan 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
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society… if… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Now teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse, Civilians are not the doormats of democracy. Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Now the ordinary Protestant, Jew or Secularist has a stereotype about Catholicism. It consists of Spanish Catholicism, Latin-American Catholicism and, let us… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey 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
“Sonnet 1306 Doctors are not official representatives, Yet they do their job quite efficiently. Teachers are not official representatives, Yet they do… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
“In the face of reformer civilians, even the politicians themselves will forget which party they belong to, so will their next of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
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