Presidents are selected, not elected.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when...

Condi and I talk about this all the time… about how we’d very much like to see a Palestinian democracy achieve its status as a state,

Neither you nor the free and democratic world can allow yourselves to abandon the cause of democracy and leave Iraq to the terrorists.

We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle, and viable social movements, democracy will slip out of our reach...

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

With drug use related harms, explanatory models are often presented as predictive tools, even though they ‘are [rarely if ever] predictive of consequent behavior’ or outcomes. Hence, we feel confident in asserting at outset, that...

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn’t mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.

La quantité de critiques reçues concernant tout sujet est inversement proportionnelle à la valeur exacte du sujet

While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do...

Democracy is when two stupid has more rights than clever one.

The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the...

In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea’s, hierarchy can block the free exchange...

Sense isn’t democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person.

He is very idealistic. He has many convictions. He is very pro-democracy, very compassionate, always helping out others, he’s very driven. Those are more characteristics of Farris than adventurous. This is the first adventure he’s...

When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of...

We can’t simply stand by idly and watch democracy and our government be turned over to the commercial interests of the giant corporations who have forgotten where they came from, which is the U.S.A..

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and...

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

It is a step forward toward ensuring Palestinian democracy in all the Palestinian territories which were occupied by Israel in 1967.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society’s gates open to welcome him; he...

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it’s order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and...

We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into...

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there’s organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren’t organized.

Vox populi vox Dei

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I collect collectivisms. I’ve already got socialism and communism, and all I need is fascism to complete the set. I’m looking to trade my dusty democracy, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in a deal at...

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…””You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?””No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having...

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state’s power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin...

I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do — cannot do — anything. And...

Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a...

Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination – these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

It’s in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly,...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than...

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless decree. These young smart alecks see it, and they immediately imagine some fatal result and come running to...