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...

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both

As for democracy and the political process in Iraq, isn’t there democracy in Germany? And yet is the Nazi party allowed back?

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and...

Our demand is democracy we accept and welcome [American] support. But only in accordance with the interests of Kurdish people.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn’t.

Democracy is the best revenge.

When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests...

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails–this is due to the very nature of democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and...

Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.

We’re in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

Had I realized while on Earth,” he said, “that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A...