Quotes About Democracy

Es este desdén por la verdad, la ciencia, el conocimiento y la democracia lo que diferencia a Reagan, y otros movimientos conservadores del pasado, de la Administración Trump y otros líderes similares

Los intentos descarados de suprimir a algunos votantes y el fraude electoral desbocado, el sabotaje a la democracia, constituyen a su vez un caso aparte en la Administración actual. No es que estas cosas no se hicieran en el pasado —por desgracia, son casi inherentes a la tradición estadounidense—, sino que nunca se habían hecho de manera tan implacable, con tanta precisión y tan flagrantemente.

When I say that democracy has no place in the university, I mean that the university is, or at any rate was and ought still to be, a hierarchical institution, as befits an elite enterprise. The hierarchy is based upon scholarly and scientific accomplishment. The accomplishment makes for authority.

Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.

In a democracy, the government is the people, Milo explained. We're people, aren't we? So we might just as well keep the money and eliminate the middleman. Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. If we pay the government everything we owe it, we'll only be encouraging governmental control and discouraging other individuals from bombing their own men and planes. We'll be taking away their incentive.

He had begun Democracy in America by warning his readers that "Whoever should imagine that I have intended to write a panegyric would be strangely mistaken," adding later that "there are certain truths which the Americans can only learn from strangers. . . .

There was in Madison's critical assessment of the state governments a discernible antidemocratic ethos rooted in the conviction that political popularity generated a toxic chemistry of appeasement and demagoguery that privileged popular whim and short-term interests at the expense of the long-term public interest.

The emergence of an early form of democratic politics had not yet reached that stage of development. It was still considered unbecoming for a serious statesman to prostitute his integrity by a direct appeal to voters.79

the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the American Medical Association, the automobile and oil industries, every kind of defense manufacturer, how could democracy be served?

Jerry: I think anyone should do whatever they like. I don't think there should be any rules. Judd: As long as it gets laughs? Jerry: If it doesn't get laughs, you're not gonna get work, and you're not gonna be a comedian. So the audience ultimately decides. It's a very democratic system.

Sometimes "reality" is used to debunk as childish or unknowledgeable points of view that actually are holding out a more radical possibility of equality or freedom or democracy or justice.... It reminds me of parents who say, "Oh, you're gay..." or "Oh, you're trans—well, of course I accept you, but it's going to be a very hard life." Instead of saying, "This is a new world, and we are going to build it together...

But the time may come when this becomes a possibility, in the context of a stronger multiracial movement for radical democracy.

To recognize our many selves is to understand the vast social construction that is not only the individual, but history itself, the present as history. A radical democratic politics must invite us to comprehend this.

It [Democracy] is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,Yet utter the word Democratic, the wordEn-Masse.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

The English constitution, in a word, is framed on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority, and making it good: the American, upon the principle of having many sovereign authorities, and hoping that their multitude may atone for their inferiority.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.

Ratnasari, taking a seat next to Sula, explained that the United States had been a prosperous democratic republic, in which citizens elected others to represent them on the city council and other civic forums. "I thought the United States was some kind of oligarchy based on religion." "That, too.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

As you go further away from experience, you go higher into generalization or subtlety. As you go up in the balloon you throw more and more concrete objects overboard, and when you have reached the top with some phrase like the Rights of Humanity or the World Made Safe for Democracy, you see far and wide, but you see very little.