Democracy and human rights Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“next one hundred years we are history”

— Tasleem Khan

“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle,…

— Henry A. Giroux

“To think of humans as freedom-loving, you must be ready to view nearly all of history as a mistake.”

— John Gray

“History is out of human control and moves forward without consideration of human life or human happiness.”

— FastReads

“Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.”

— Bernard R. Crick

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

— Zaman Ali

“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men would forget…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Democracy ceases to be so if it is governed by permanent majoritarian identities of any kind.”

— Romila Thapar

“Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.”

— Erica Jong

"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors…

— Thomas Jefferson

“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville