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In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
I am an Indian, and I know what India is. I know Indian culture. I know Indian constitution and democracy.
The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
Children who can barely say maa, pappa, are saying Ab ki baar Modi sarkar. This is the power of democracy.
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.