Democracy Quotes - Page 49

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.

The human heart is the first home of democracy.

May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.