Democracy Quote by William Greider Download Open image “The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.” — William Greider ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Modern Neglect People Problem Rooted
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,… — Joost A. M. Meerloo Copy Share Image
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. — William Greider Copy Share Image
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. — William Greider Copy Share Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value. — William Greider Copy Share Image
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on… — William Greider 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
