All kinds Quote by Herbert Croly

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the…

— Henry Giroux

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which…

— Harry Woodburn Chase

“Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.”

— Rodney Stark

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

— George Soros

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types…

— Simon Mainwaring

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

— Robert Morrison MacIver