Democracy 104
The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire
The common people suffer when the powerful disagree.
Phaedrus
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Richard von Weizsacker
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
Robert Anson Heinlein
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
Robert Bianco
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...build(ing) a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
Violence is the last resource of the incompetence.
Salvor Hardin
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson
know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.
Thomas Jefferson
It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas Jefferson
He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.
V. A. Zhukovsky
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
V. I. Lenin
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been
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