Democratic Quote by Murray Levin

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

— Rudolph Rummel

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

— Jamal Khashoggi

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

— Condoleezza Rice

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of…

— Aldous Huxley

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

— Herbert Marcuse

Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits…

— Henry Louis Mencken

“Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation…

— Daniel Guérin

Repression is fantastic.

— Courteney Cox

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

— H. L. Mencken

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

— Naomi Wolf

Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

— Bob Beckel