Built Quote by Kofi Annan

Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights.…

— Kofi Annan

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

— Charles W. Pickering

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and…

— John Mackey

Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Healthy democracies require healthy relationships amongst citizens and their governments.

— Phil Scott

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

— Abraham Maslow

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers…

— John Dewey

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

— Chinua Achebe

A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency

— Peter Fenn

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how…

— John Ralston Saul

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights…

— Andrei Sakharov