Democratic Quote by Terence McKenna

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a…

— Edward Bernays

“All this was built on the firm foundation of primate bonding patterns. If the pattern broke down at the bottom, it gave a rabble.…

— Gardner R. Dozois

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate…

— Edward Bernays

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

— Edward Bernays

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed…

— Jose Saramago

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple…

— David Weinberger

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

— Donna Dubinsky

Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.

— Julia Hartz

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire…

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith