Action Quote by John Dewey

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society…

— Walter Lippmann

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way…

— John Dewey

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line…

— Norman Mailer

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only…

— John Dewey

I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated…

— Erich Fromm

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is…

— Saul Alinsky

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

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

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for…

— Jimmy Carter