Democracy Quote by Judith Butler

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms…

— Gail Bradbrook

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish…

— H. L. Mencken

“It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters…

— Joe Roman

“Everybody is satisfied, that a conservation and secure enjoyment of our natural rights is the great and ultimate purpose of civil society; and that…

— Edmund Burke

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment…

— Dian Fossey

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

— Douglas Tompkins

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Democracy is a process.

— Paul Wolfowitz

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military…

— Noam Chomsky