Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period’s political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State “What does it matter to me?” the State may be given up for lost.

Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters.

Is it possible thatwe ‘hate’ politics because we have forgotten its specifi c and limitednature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it bethat our expectations are so high that politics appears almost...

Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy’s perks, right?

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it’s going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting,...

not only peacefully created unimaginable political changes in Poland, putting Polish people on a road to freedom and democracy, but also showed other nations of the former eastern bloc the possibility of correcting historic injustice.

Now we must ensure a free and fair election. This is a big victory for democracy.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal...

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Democracy doesn’t recognize east or west; democracy is simply people’s will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

It’s not democracy when a dictator is walking around with a sword in his hand. This is inadmissible.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

But democracy isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead a modern democracy.

There is absolutely no excuse for the disgraceful scenes in Dublin today. It is the essence of Irish democracy and republicanism that people are allowed to express their views freely and in a peaceful manner.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation’s promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

The day of democracy is past,” he said. “Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of...

In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II’s startling warning about democracy “effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism.” It begins to happen at a practical level when we simultaneously...

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed...

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before...

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the...

The whole world is preaching democracy, so we have no doubt that this election will be free and fair.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Violent ideologies speak their own language; core concepts are translated to maintain the system while appearing to support the people. Under carnism, for instance, democracy has become defined as having the freedom to choose among...

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

At its most base level, the sheer wealth of these candidates shows that representative democracy in California isn’t representative at all. These are wealthy, white individuals and that makes it that much harder for them...

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn’t describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.

Earlier in [2007] the [Prime Minister’s Office] had also drawn criticism for trying to muzzle the judiciary. The reproach came from Antonio Lamer, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court….’I must say I was...

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of...

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is...

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and...

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Privacy, self-reliance, choice — all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly...

In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life,...

Throughout our history, brave men and women have answered the call to defend and protect our democracy.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the...

It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in...

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky – under each bulb – down...

Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.