Community Quote by John Hickenlooper

“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

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

— Fred Reed

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of…

— Eli Pariser

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much…

— Charles Kennedy

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

— David Harsanyi

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of…

— John Ralston Saul

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

— David Harsanyi

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

— Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker