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• 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

• A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Freedom

• 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

• Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• 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

• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Francois Marie Arouet

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

• America’s support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

  William J. Bennett

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Noblest, Export

• Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Deserve, Governed

• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  Walter Cronkite

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Media, Essential, Competition

• It is at once evident that a religion which is able to make vital connection with a world-view based on the principles inherent in evolution, democracy, and science will be a new thing under the sun.

  Eustace Haydon

  Topics in Democracy, Religion

  Tags in School, Philosophy

• The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people’s differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.

  Jerome Nathanson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Diversity, Acceptance, Tolerance

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

  William H. Hastie

  Topics in Democracy

• The right to live one’s life, in privacy and freedom, in whatever way one wants, so long as others are not harmed, should be a sacred principle in a democracy.

  Howard Zinn

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Freedom

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

  Thomas Mann

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Timelessness, Youthful

• 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