Democracies Quotes

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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms… — Lewis Mumford
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. — Harold Pinter
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an… — Henrique Capriles Radonski
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?… — Paul Robeson
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival. — Michael Shermer
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. — Alexis de Tocqueville
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function… — Evgeny Morozov
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press… — Howard Rheingold
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every… — John Pilger
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take… — Bertrand Russell
Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing â€” a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the… — Terence McKenna
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. — James F. Cooper
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have… — James Madison
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Democracies die behind closed doors. — Damon Keith

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