A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times… — Bernie Sanders 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 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
I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press. — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting… — Helen Suzman 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
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a… — Ruth Manorama Copy Share Image
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility to give people opportunities to do what they can do. It's a fundamental tenet of democratic society. Libertarians… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“All the professions that actually require some tangible skillsets and expertise, don't rely on the jungle whim of democracy. Yet the most… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery,… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
“It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“A democratic society must seek to give every young person, whether native-born or newcomer, the knowledge and skills to succeed as an… — Diane Ravitch 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
I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner 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
“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 sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“True democracy speaks; it does not shout. It listens to reason, not the roar of populism.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya 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
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
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