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• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Action

• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Statistics, Abuse

• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights, Government, Women

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Information, Works

• It means that, in fact, it’s – whether fascist is the right word I don’t know – more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Controlled, Wealthy, Elite, Fascists, Resembling, Word

• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in War

• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Equality, Human Nature

• The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.

  Edward Dowling

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy, Self Respect

  Tags in Solidarity

• America now stands as the world’s foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Democracy, Vision

  Tags in Human Rights

• Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Timelessness, Youthful

• Any leader who doesn’t support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity, Leadership

• The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government

• As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Topics in Democracy

• Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

  John Kerry

  Topics in America, Democracy

  Tags in Petriotism

• I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. — smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Washington, Politicians, Helping Other People

• Democracy is not being, it is becoming. It is easily lost, but never finally won.

  William H. Hastie

  Topics in Democracy

• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government