Best democracy & function Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.”

People Firsts Might Individual Democracy Essence Function Absolutes Peculiar

Author:Edwin Land

“Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.”

Doe Wish Democracy Function Intention Fulfilment

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.”

Long Facts Would Be Nations Democracy Greater Majors Function Profit Cures Consumers Welfare Organized Enterprise Ignored Free Enterprise

Author:Saul Alinsky

“We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.”

Believe Country Form Left Social Views Party Democracy Policy Expression Function Wings Labour Socialist Marxist Labour Party Social Democracy

Author:Anthony Crosland

“A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”

Believe Law Democracy Members Function Constituents

Author:John Paul Stevens

“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”

Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.”

May Values Community Democracy Members Function Raises Humble Conception

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.”

Men Democracy Ordinary Men And Women Machines Function Ordinary Man

Author:Eleanor Dark

“Islam and democracy can function together.”

Together Democracy Function Islam

Author:Ali Babacan

“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.”

Years Artist Democracy Function Defined Eras Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.”

Way Democracy Function Informing

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.”

Ifs Men Want Needs Government Interest Realizing Democracy Promise Function Species Intelligence Active Enlightened Dictatorship Participation Physicist Goodwill Wants And Needs

Author:Jerome Frank

“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.”

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.”

People Values Social Process Liberty Democracy Judging Function Constitution Agendas Framers

Author:Robert Bork

“The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.”

Character Democracy Minutes Function Ridiculous Newspapers Opposition Forfeit Quacks

Book:Diary of H. L. Mencken

Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken

“The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.”

Democracy Mass Function Oppression Secure Exploitation Consent Bourgeois

Author:Tariq Ali

“Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.”

Knows Needs Hate Democracy Function Agendas Affirmative

Author:Jill Stein

“Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Helping Seems Kids Able Jobs Political Teach Democracy Trouble Function Complicated Critical Diverse Critical Thinking Political Systems Better Jobs Diverse Society

Author:Barack Obama

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