Democracies have Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracies have Democracy Democratic Desire Form Freedom Institutions Quarantine
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
