The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds,...

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo – it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that...

poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don’t have democracy. Some politician on the radio was saying that that’s why we Indian are going to...

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law,...

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, ‘the plane’s hitting,’ and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the...

Our ways of seeing are democratic. Unfortunately, they are not bureaucratic. Except in rare circumstances, I no longer believe that it is possible to be both, because when it becomes bureaucratic the struggle is not...

First, we insist on democracy, they on dictatorship. Then there is the matter of the continuous ethnic cleansing policy in the Kurdish areas under the control of the Iraqi government.

Washington was no politician as we understand the word,” replied Ratcliffe abruptly. “He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn’t be done today. The people don’t like that sort of royal airs.

Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as “What is the most significant story that you have revealed?” […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories...

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis...

It’s important, if we’re going to call ourselves a democracy, that everybody more or less have the right to vote,

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force...

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

… you can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to...

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on democracy.

It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for...

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing – an interstellar kula chain – affirming the differences...

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

These spikes of violence are predictable around certain critical events that highlight the progress of democracy, … Remember, democracy equals failure for the insurgency. So there has to be heightened awareness now as we work...

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship...

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: ‘The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New...

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The chief care of the legislators [in the colonies of New England] was the maintenance of orderly conduct and good morals in the community: thus they constantly invaded the domain of conscience, and there was...

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as...

I have concluded that 180’s business model is fundamentally broken — that 180 cannot implement technology or enforcement to assure the proper installation of its software. Accordingly, just as CDT [Center for Democracy & Technology]...

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.

I don’t think you can sell democracy at the point of an M-16. We’re just trying to force it down their throats.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der zum Herrschen Geeignetste wäre, so ist es in unserer zeit naiv zu glauben, dass der demokratisch gewählte Machthaber der...

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their...

We cannot have any laws not in keeping with the tenets of Islam and of democracy.

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another’s point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel...

Bush professes his policy is to support freedom and democracy and here he is supporting a military dictator.

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the...

I like it too,” Angelo said. “I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.””I know it,” Prew said.”But I still hate this country. You love the Army. But I dont love...

Tell your wives and your older children to bring with them dish pans and cooking pots. Tell them to bring their stirring spoons and ladles. Tell them to carry a mop over their shoulders. We’re...

We generally think that democracy works best when citizens can cast an informed vote. To willfully refuse to provide that information and say, ‘Well, send me a bill,’ seems to me to be deeply undemocratic.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified by reasons of state...