Quotes about demo
democratic-ideals people use
In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation. Terence McKenna
democracy outcomes next
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around. Randall Robinson
democracy vote oppression
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. Ralph Waldo Emerson
democracy groups citizenship
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence. Lewis Mumford
democracy world financial
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. Stephane Hessel
democracy ambitious arrogant
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. Vaclav Klaus
democracy ambitious global-warming
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
democracy sacred constitution
The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
democracy suggestions libertarian
Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves. Stefan Molyneux
democracy teach university
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. Stanley Fish
democracy faces contrast
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. Sidney Hook
democracy foundation injustice
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. Thurgood Marshall
democracy empires convinced
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Thucydides
democracy chance depends
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves Robert A. Dahl
democracy justified economic
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.
democracy politics democrat
Democracy can survive anything except Democrats Robert A. Heinlein
democracy wonderful responsible
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
democracy socialism either-or
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system? Tim Allen
democratic civilised detention
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. Robert Bourassa
democracy way
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work. Tommy Douglas
democracy dictatorship implants
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. Tom Tancredo
democracy east middle
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. Silvan Shalom
democracy regulation standards
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. Shami Chakrabarti
democratic capitalism
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. Serj Tankian
democracy way anarchy
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with. Steven Pinker
democracy done feels
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done. Richard Grossman
democracy levels bars
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy Recep Tayyip Erdogan
democracy east achieve
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East
democracy debate method
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously
democracy election parliament
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
democracy threat dictatorship
Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship, Joseph Estrada
democracy politics bases
Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't? Kobe Bryant
democracy progress development
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development. Kofi Annan