Democratic Society Quotes
65 Democratic Society quotes by 58 unique authors
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and…
— Unknown Author
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a…
— Felix Frankfurter
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I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
— Helen Suzman
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in…
— Peter L. Berger
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this…
— Edward Bernays
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Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals…
— Ordway Tead
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and…
— Shirley Hufstedler
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The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too…
— Anna Lindh
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The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans…
— Elaine Pagels
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
— Christopher Dawson
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a…
— Walter Lippmann
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Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic…
— Massimo Pigliucci
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It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
— Barbara Jordan
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive…
— Saul Bellow
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As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is…
— John Paul Stevens
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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 of its authoritarian…
— Richard Heinberg
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical…
— Edward Bernays
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There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So…
— Richard Rorty
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Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in…
— Tony Benn
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
— Amy Goodman
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The solution to women’s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both…
— Tawakkol Karman
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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the…
— Virginia Gildersleeve
Who Wrote These Democratic Society Quotes
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