Democracy Quote by Bertrand De Jouvenel

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the…

— Aristotle

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the…

— Aristotle

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous…

— Milos Forman

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and…

— Anonymous

So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful…

— James Madison

Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or…

— Murray Rothbard

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

— Norman Thomas

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these…

— Charlotte Brontë

“others met (if at all) only virtually, whose institutional status”

— Cathy N. Davidson

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it…

— Herbert Hoover

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

— Carroll Quigley