Democracy Quote by Tony Judt Download Open image “I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.” — Tony Judt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Democratic Exception Grew Grew up Norm Social State States Up Where World
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go… — Aleksandr Lebed Copy Share Image
Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Whatever their other differences, French Gaullists, Christian Democrats and Socialists shared a common faith in the activist state, economic planning and large-scale public investment.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image