D Quotes
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“Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.”
Source: Latter-day Pamphlets
“Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.”
Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
“Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.”
“Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.”
Source: Understanding Your Place in God's Kingdom: Your Original Purpose for Existence
“Democracy without morality is impossible.”
“Democracy works when people claim it as their own”
“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”
“Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.”
“Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.”
“Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.”
“Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.”
“Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.”
“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”
“Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?”
“Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.”
“Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.”
“Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
“Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.”
“Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.”
“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.”
“Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.”
Source: On Power and Ideology
“Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves”
“Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.”
Source: Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall
“Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“Democracy, like life, is hard to learn and doesn't have a teacher.”
“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”
“Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.”
“Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.”
“Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.”
“Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?”
“Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.”
“Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.”
Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
“Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.”
Source: Conservatism Revisited
“Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.”
“Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?”
“Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.”
“Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.”
Source: Jan Christian Smuts: a biography
“Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.”
“Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.”
“Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.”
“Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.”
“Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.”
“Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.)”
“Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.”
“Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.”