Delusion Quote by John Dewey

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions…

— John Dewey

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for…

— Robert M. Hutchins

The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th…

— Thomas Piketty

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the…

— Harry S. Truman

The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to…

— Saul Alinsky

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

— Thomas Piketty

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the…

— Swami Vivekananda

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement…

— Herbert Croly

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

— Adam Michnik

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use…

— Terence McKenna

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very…

— Whitney M. Young