Quotes About Democracy

And right after the decision removing limits from PAC donations, the number of business PACs increased from three hundred to twelve hundred, generating gushers of money that helped triple the cost of campaigns for a House seat by the mid-1980s, which in turn gave PACs more power, and so on it has gone ever since, a vicious cycle corrupting democracy.

Noch nie hat die Demokratie so prompt reagiert, wie wenn es sich darum handelt, etwas gegen die Diktatur nicht zu tun.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Astounding how similar the face of freedom can be to the face of fascism.

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Avrà magari ragione il professor Weinberger a sperare che <> finisca per essere più intelligente di noi, ma la storia ideologica del XX secolo è purtroppo piena di esempi in cui individui e teorie <> hanno poi innescato conformismi, deprimenti in democrazia, tragici nei sistemi totalitari.

Il potere costituito su basi emotive è l'opposto della democrazia, che si fonda invece sulla discussione critica, sull'argomentazione, sulla ricezione di istanze molteplici: è un potere "che regredisce alla logica primitiva dell'amico/nemico, da cui la cultura occidentale ha cercato di emanciparsi proprio attraverso la politica, intesa come gestione razionale di interessi contrastanti [corsivo mio]".

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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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 around.

There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

O processo de moda reestruturou a comunicação política: ninguém entra aqui se não for sedutor e tranquilo, a competição democrática passa pelos jogos do aliciamento, pelos paraísos artificiais do entertainment, da aparência, da personalidade midiática.

Com a mídia-político, os cidadãos são infantilizados, já não se engajam na vida pública, são alienados, manipulados por gadgets e imagens, a democracia é "desnaturada" e "pervertida".

A democracy that is reduced in having state of emergency and security as its unique paradigms, is no longer a democracy.

Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration.' That's just a small sliver of Johnson's radicalism: replacing Feingold in the Senate with Ron Johnson would be a civil liberties travesty analogous to the economic travesty from, say, replacing Bernie Sanders with Lloyd Blankfein.

We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it's violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.