Flourishing Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”

— Pope John Paul II

“I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his…

— Jack L. Chalker

“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!”

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles of society…

— Alain de Botton

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Cornel West

“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by…

— Thomas Jefferson

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. ”

— Adam Smith

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.”

— Jack Lessenberry

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because…

— George Orwell