Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

Democracy and Education

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120

An Artist of the Floating World

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

Deborah Kass

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?

Ravelstein

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Minority Report

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Mort

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. .

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

Thomas Hart Benton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

Orthodoxy

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

The Original Blue Back Speller

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack ...

Plutus

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy.

Paper Towns

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

The Quiet American

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi