Democracy Quotes - Page 17

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

May you have the income of a Republican and the sex life of a Democrat!

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

You just wait and see. The lily-livered b*stards in Washington will demobilize. They'll say they've made the world safe for democracy again. The Russians are not such d*mned fools. They'll rebuild; and with modern weapons.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.