“One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.” KnowsHumansInterestHuman BeingsPowerDemocracyJudgingConceptsDemocraticShoesIdeologyAssumptionMaxims Author:Sidney Hook
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.” IfsWorldShouldHumansCountryStatesWould BeEarthHuman BeingsRaceDemocracyAliveExampleShameWaveCivilizedBurnedHumiliationLynching Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.” HumansKindReasonFactsFatherHuman BeingsSimpleDemocracyResponsibleCorporateDictatorshipFoundingOur Founding Fathers Author:Steven Van Zandt
“Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.” HumansEnoughHuman BeingsDemocracyGood Enough Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.” HumansDreamFightingHuman BeingsDemocracyBloodBottomFleshPatriotFlesh And Blood Author:Bill Moyers
“What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.” ThinkingKnowsHumansHappensUsedHuman BeingsDemocracyGoes OnOrdinaryEstablishmentPawns Author:David Suchet
“If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsForgetDemocracy Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“To defeat terrorism, we must acknowledge that we are all human beings. It is not our choice to belong to a particular race or family. We should be freed from fear of the other and enjoy diversity within democracy. I believe that dialogue and education are the most effective means to surpass our differences.” ShouldBelieveHumansMeanChoicesI BelieveEnjoyDifferencesHuman BeingsRaceDemocracyParticularDiversityDefeatTerrorismDialogueAcknowledgeOur Choices Author:Fethullah Gulen
“Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.” BelieveHumansValuesReligiousHuman BeingsDemocracyShareDignityReligious FreedomHuman DignityBrusselsWarsaw Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.” ShouldHumansShowsOpportunityHuman BeingsDemocracyPersonalityEqualShould HaveEssenceMeant To BeAssurance Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansSpiritualFeltInterestMy OwnHuman BeingsAbilityQualityDemocracyGreaterHusbandFundamentalsEducatedGreat Patience Author:Eleanor Roosevelt