The students had a ‘textbook definition’ understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Ainsi donc, en s’alliant à un pouvoir politique, la religion augmente sa puissance sur quelques-uns, et perd l’espérance de régner sur tous.

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don’t have to listen.

For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

There are great reasons to celebrate. This is a gigantic step toward the recovery of democracy and liberty.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values… it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.Now I may be opposed to abortion...

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c’è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un’aberrazione in un...

These are all the basics of democracy.

What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make...

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of “most successful organization in modern history,” you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States.In its earliest...

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would...

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

The Bush rhetoric about democracy has little to do with Washington’s actual policy goals in the Middle East.

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on...

This means that democracy will not exist and dictatorship by foreign powers with their puppet governments will be the system of the world.

There is no democracy in physics. We can’t say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers...

[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life,...

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of...

To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of the people do not clearly see what...

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme...

We urge the king to return to democracy by initiating a dialogue with the country’s political parties. After one year of arbitrary rule, this is the best way to address the Maoist insurgency and to...

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of...

Demokratie gestattet keine Politik außerhalb des demokratischen Systems. In diesem Sinne ist Demokratie totalitär.

You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Nine out of ten people agree, it was right and just to kill and eat that one guy. That’s love. That’s democracy. That’s a free dinner.

As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of...

For guns and ammunition,” says I.

Es ist wichtig zu begreifen, dass wir der Toleranz nicht dienen, wenn wir unser Profil verwässern, sondern indem wir uns umgekehrt unserer eigenen Werte wieder vergewissern. […] Wir tun der Toleranz auch nichts Böses an,...

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.