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Image of Van Jones
In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.
- Van Jones
Collection: Democracy
Image of Prince Hassan bin Talal
Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.
- Prince Hassan bin Talal
Collection: Democracy
Image of Robert Morrison MacIver
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.
- Robert Morrison MacIver
Collection: Democracy
Image of Juan Bosch
Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.
- Juan Bosch
Collection: Democracy
Image of Annie Leonard
We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.
- Annie Leonard
Collection: Democracy
Image of David Korten
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
- David Korten
Collection: Democracy
Image of David Korten
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
- David Korten
Collection: Democracy
Image of William H. Hastie
Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
- William H. Hastie
Collection: Democracy
Image of Rory Stewart
If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
- Rory Stewart
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jacques Chirac
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.
- Jacques Chirac
Collection: Democracy
Image of R. H. Tawney
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
- R. H. Tawney
Collection: Democracy
Image of Raya Dunayevskaya
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.
- Raya Dunayevskaya
Collection: Democracy
Image of Walter Cronkite
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
- Walter Cronkite
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Langdon-Davies
Democracy will be dead by 1950.
- John Langdon-Davies
Collection: Democracy
Image of Ramachandra Guha
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
- Ramachandra Guha
Collection: Democracy
Image of Scott Pelley
There is no democracy without journalism.
- Scott Pelley
Collection: Democracy
Image of David Brock
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
- David Brock
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Stuart Mackenzie
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.
- John Stuart Mackenzie
Collection: Democracy
Image of Michael Gerson
This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.
- Michael Gerson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Robert A. Dahl
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.
- Robert A. Dahl
Collection: Democracy
Image of Robert A. Dahl
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves
- Robert A. Dahl
Collection: Democracy
Image of William J. Murray
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
- William J. Murray
Collection: Democracy
Image of Anna Lappe
Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
- Anna Lappe
Collection: Democracy
Image of Neal Gabler
More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive
- Neal Gabler
Collection: Democracy
Image of Wendell H. Ford
If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
- Wendell H. Ford
Collection: Democracy
Image of Fred Reed
Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.
- Fred Reed
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mario Cuomo
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
- Mario Cuomo
Collection: Democracy
Image of Bertrand de Jouvenel
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
- Bertrand de Jouvenel
Collection: Democracy
Image of Morton Blackwell
Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
- Morton Blackwell
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Redwood
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
- John Redwood
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jerrold Nadler
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.
- Jerrold Nadler
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Sweeney
We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
- John Sweeney
Collection: Democracy
Image of Samuel Fuller
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.
- Samuel Fuller
Collection: Democracy
Image of Violeta Chamorro
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.
- Violeta Chamorro
Collection: Democracy
Image of David P. Ellerman
From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.
- David P. Ellerman
Collection: Democracy
Image of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Collection: Democracy
Image of Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Collection: Democracy
Image of A. O. Scott
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
- A. O. Scott
Collection: Democracy
Image of George Weigel
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
- George Weigel
Collection: Democracy
Image of Brendan Kennelly
Poetry is the ultimate democracy.
- Brendan Kennelly
Collection: Democracy
Image of Flemming Rose
The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.
- Flemming Rose
Collection: Democracy
Image of Harold Innis
Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.
- Harold Innis
Collection: Democracy
Image of Karl Kautsky
Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
- Karl Kautsky
Collection: Democracy
Image of Poul Henningsen
Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition
- Poul Henningsen
Collection: Democracy
Image of Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
I am trying to create awareness of the true concept of democracy.
- Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Collection: Democracy
Image of Dario Fo
Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
- Dario Fo
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Jay Hooker
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
- John Jay Hooker
Collection: Democracy
Image of Leon Wieseltier
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.
- Leon Wieseltier
Collection: Democracy
Image of Tommy Douglas
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.
- Tommy Douglas
Collection: Democracy