Democracy Quote by Edward Luce Download Open image ““We cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national determination and economic globalisation.”” — Edward Luce ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world's second-largest economy, without the political will and security… — Wang Yizhou Copy Share Image
“It remains the hidden aim of democracy to supplant what is national, spiritual, integrating, and paternal with a chimerical system that is at once… — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
“But we need to search for and find, what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or… — Paul Warburg Copy Share Image
“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a treasure which no one will ever discover by deliberate search. But in continuing our search, in laboring indefatigably to discover the… — Christopher L. Hayes Copy Share Image
“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade” — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this,… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America’s big… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated in STEM… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two minds about… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image