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...

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...

Youths are our arrows to the future.

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind … when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal...

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits

The US exports democracy, hence there being very little left for Americans

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because...

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

We grew up under dictatorship, wanted democracy and were quickly given responsibility. That sharpens the view for risks, but also for chances.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

[Rumsfeld said he does not] known much about … But he is no friend of democracy. He’s no friend of freedom. He is a person who is very much supportive of the current ayatollahs, who...

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democracy’ and...

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so...

We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed beyond the sphere of the political, and it is illusory to expect...

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that’s how it works in a democracy.

Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Open Everything’ is everything–it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

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.

Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.