Books Quote by Jose Saramago

“Present-day democratic structures just cannot collect and process the relevant data fast enough, and most voters don’t understand biology and cybernetics well enough to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all…

— Jerry Brown

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

“But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails--this is due to the…

— Christopher Stasheff

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

— Mark McKinnon

“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.”

— Henry A. Giroux