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In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.Collection: Democracy
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.Collection: Democracy
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.Collection: Democracy
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.Collection: Democracy
I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.Collection: Democracy
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.Collection: Democracy
Drift is the demon of democracy.Collection: Democracy
The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.Collection: Democracy
Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.Collection: Democracy
A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.Collection: Democracy
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressedCollection: Democracy
Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.Collection: Democracy
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.Collection: Democracy
There is no democracy without dissent.Collection: Democracy
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.Collection: Democracy
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.Collection: Democracy
Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.Collection: Democracy
Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.Collection: Democracy
You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your business, someone else is going to handle it and be sneaky about it, and put an extra dollar in their pocket. You learn all sorts of things you take to your next relationship. You're constantly learning about what you don't want to do, first and foremost, which leads you to what you do want to do.Collection: Democracy
The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.Collection: Democracy
Democracy is about criticism.Collection: Democracy
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.Collection: Democracy
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.Collection: Democracy
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.Collection: Democracy
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.Collection: Democracy
Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.Collection: Democracy
Certainly it is not a democracy.Collection: Democracy
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.Collection: Democracy
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.Collection: Democracy
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.Collection: Democracy
We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!Collection: Democracy
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.Collection: Democracy
The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.Collection: Democracy
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.Collection: Democracy
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.Collection: Democracy
Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.Collection: Democracy
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.Collection: Democracy
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.Collection: Democracy
In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.Collection: Democracy
There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.Collection: Democracy
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.Collection: Democracy
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.Collection: Democracy
Democracy can survive anything except DemocratsCollection: Democracy
I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.Collection: Democracy
The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.Collection: Democracy
Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.Collection: Democracy
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.Collection: Democracy
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.Collection: Democracy