“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.” DemocracyDangerousDependsCitizensProtectScaredFragileFabric Author:Margaret Atwood
“Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.” NeedsStillsGovernmentPoliticsDemocracyFlowerFragileCultivating Author:Ronald Reagan
“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.” IfsTryingPhilosophyHandsFacesDesireDemocracyAliveDemocraticCriticalExperimentsDialogueWrestlingFragileDispositionDominationDogmatism Author:Cornel West
“In a normal democracy, you protect the individual from the excessive power of the state. In Turkey, power elites try to protect the state - as if this state were fragile and needed protection - when in fact, it's too powerful already.” IfsTryingStatesFactsIndividualPowerfulDemocracyNeededProtectNormalProtectionFragileElitesTurkeys Author:Elif Safak
“After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?” PeopleIfsNeedsChildrenCountryGrowsHalfDemocracyPlanetsIntelligentSensitiveSeatsDriversFragile Author:Alice Walker