Quotes about demo
democracies-have majority-rule evil
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. Lord Acton
democratic gay people percent political primary regarded vote worth york
The gay vote is now regarded by many professional political people to be worth up to 16 to 17 percent of the democratic primary in New York City.
democrats favor greater higher parties pay taxpayers
The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. P. J. O'Rourke
democratic far freedom leadership national party socialist
The Freedom Party and its leadership is a democratic party far removed from any totalitarian or national socialist sympathies.
democracy violence convenience
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. Edward Bond
democracy principles dignity
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. Edward Bellamy
democracy politics want
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. Edward Albee
democracy cold made
Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science. Jon Stewart
democracy dry littles
It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process. Russell Brand
democracy use toasters
Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.
democracy problem findings
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr
democracy problem method
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
democracy enough humans
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
democracies-have political identity
So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent. Pankaj Mishra
democratic marketplace
The marketplace is democratic. Pericles
democracy states despotism
The worst of all States is the democratic State. Pierre Corneille
democracy hungry said
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. Pete Domenici
democracy doe serious
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. Phillip E. Johnson
democracy way majority
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Robert Bork
democracy complaining three
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. Rick Mercer
democracies-have government libertarian-party
Government is best which governs least Thomas Paine
democracy east administration
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. Timothy Garton Ash
democracy definitions process
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process. Thomas Sowell
democracy republic experts
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing. Thomas Piketty
democratic-ideals luck inheritance
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
democracy alive dictatorship
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death. Saul Alinsky
democracies-have race intelligence
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised Robert M. Hutchins
democracy firsts election
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't. Rich Galen
democracy important minorities
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy. Robert Caro
democracy world
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. Ruhollah Khomeini
democracy revulsion happens
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again. Warren Buffett
democracy movement revolutionary
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin
democracy minorities rich
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.