Civilization Quote by Vaclav Havel

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

— Vandana Shiva

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

— Thomas Carlyle

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It…

— Brian Eno

Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but…

— Harry S. Truman

“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous?…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does…

— William Greider

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

— John Dewey