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Image of Llewellyn Rockwell
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
- Llewellyn Rockwell
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Image of William Randolph Hearst
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.
- William Randolph Hearst
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Image of Alexander Fraser Tytler
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Image of John Dewey
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
- John Dewey
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Image of Randal Marlin
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
- Randal Marlin
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Image of Lord Acton
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
- Lord Acton
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Image of Ken Livingstone
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
- Ken Livingstone
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Image of Simon Mainwaring
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
- Simon Mainwaring
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Image of George Soros
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
- George Soros
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Image of Jean Baudrillard
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
- Jean Baudrillard
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Image of Jawaharlal Nehru
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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Image of Noam Chomsky
Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.
- Noam Chomsky
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Image of Hillary Clinton
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
- Hillary Clinton
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Image of George Hamilton
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
- George Hamilton
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Image of Jeff Cooper
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
- Jeff Cooper
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Image of John Dewey
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.
- John Dewey
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Image of Pankaj Mishra
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
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Image of David Lloyd George
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.
- David Lloyd George
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Image of Al Gore
American democracy has been hacked.
- Al Gore
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Image of Robert M. Hutchins
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
- Robert M. Hutchins
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Image of Samuel P. Huntington
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.
- Samuel P. Huntington
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Image of Douglas Adams
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
- Douglas Adams
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Image of Sinclair Lewis
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
- Sinclair Lewis
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Tony Kushner
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
- Tony Kushner
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Image of H. L. Mencken
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Karl Marx
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
- Karl Marx
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Image of James Madison
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
- James Madison
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