Democratic Institutions Quotes

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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means… — Aung San Suu Kyi
There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest… — Diane Ravitch
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions… — Aldous Huxley
Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong. — Jose Manuel Barroso
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… — Bill Vaughan
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free. — Jim DeMint
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making… — Aldous Huxley
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is… — Ludwig von Mises
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people… — Ivan Krastev
In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about… — Noam Chomsky
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they… — Rebecca MacKinnon
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can… — Thomas Piketty
All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco. — Donald Evans

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