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• Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

  John Simon

  Topics in Democracy

• Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

  Meg Greenfield

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

  Stuart Chase

  Topics in Democracy

• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Diversity

• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education … (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Democracy, Education

  Tags in Change/Growth, Equality

• Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

  Agnes Repplier

  Topics in Democracy

• The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

• Representative government is closer to democracy than monarchy, and for this reason it has been hailed as one of the great political advances of modern times; yet, it is only a step in the direction of democracy, at its best.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy is this — to hold
  That all who wander down the pike
  In cart or car, on foot or bike,
  Or male or female, young or old,
  Are much alike — are much alike.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Diversity

• The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Government

• We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people’s policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

  Hubert Humphrey

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Human Rights

• In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

  James William Fulbright

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• The great danger for American democracy is not from the protesters. That democracy is too poorly realized for us to consider critics — even rebels — as the chief problem. Its fulfillment requires us all, living in an ossified system which sustains too much killing and too much selfishness, to join the protest.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• If you don’t speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

  Jim Hightower

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent

• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs — in religion, literature, colleges and schools — democracy in all public and private life….

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Equality, Elections

• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• Were busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Afghanistan, Iraq