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• We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Injustice, Material Possessions, Wealth

• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  Wendell Phillips

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Minorities, Wealth

• Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Informed, Foundation

• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

  A. J. Liebling

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Weak

• In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

  Paul Tsongas

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Political, Tide, Global Village, Simple

• It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Voting

• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Duty, Virtue

• The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

  A. J. Muste

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nonviolence, Good, Evil, Violence

• Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in World, Unsaid, Violence

• Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Media, News

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  Topics in Democracy, Environment

  Tags in Connections, Human Rights, Environmental, Peace, Seem, Relationship

• Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Problems, Finding

• There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change — and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Understanding

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Forced, Observer, Idealistic, Feelings

• Once you don’t vote your ideals… that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Democracy, Ideals

  Tags in Affect, Moral

• The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Denotes, Stripped, Moral

• Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Trouble

• Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

  E. B. White

  Topics in Democracy, Religion

  Tags in Faith

• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Against, Argument

• Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

  Robert Orben

  Topics in Democracy, History

  Tags in Time, Price