“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldHeartCountryStatesHelpingFightingUnitedEnemyUnited StatesDemocracyProgressWorstMastersKingsCivilizationLaborBlindDollarsWorkersDumbDeafBourgeoisWorst Enemy Author:Alexander Berkman
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.” ThinkingHumansWarEnoughProcessEffortRaceBreakDemocracyProgressSocietyRevolutionTownsDrivenAwakeningMinoritiesNow And ThenReformationHaltBarbariansBreak ThroughFrench RevolutionHuman ProgressHorde Author:H. L. Mencken
“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.” StillsPoliticalTechnologyPowerDemocracyProgressEconomicCapitalismExpectedNovelistsConcentrationFlourishingEconomic PowerCentralization Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948 Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.” ThinkingFeelsViewsTechnologyDemocracyProgressReturnUniversalAbsolutesPoint Of ViewRealizationUselessConceptionEcstasyExcessHeroismRealismCatastropheRomanticismUnattainableDynamism Author:Juan Ramon Jimenez
“As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.” DemocracyProgressIndiaProsperityJapanMutualStakesAsia Author:Manmohan Singh
“I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.” StatesFightingLostLibertyDemocracySawsRightsProgressCivilizationBattleDestructionFilledSavedChecksRedemptionStakesRejoiceSovereignMournConfederateAbsolutismSecessionWaterlooStates RightsRichmond Author:Lord Acton
“Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.” PeopleHeartMayDoeSometimesHardWholeJoyDemocracyProgressHeardSpeciesStrikesGenuineManageGiantsMore MoneySevereBusinessmanEmployersHeartedHarmoniousDominatingHandicappedSoft Heart Author:B. C. Forbes
“Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.” LastsDemocracyProgressJournalismWork In Progress Author:John Maxwell Hamilton
“Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.” GovernmentSocialTalkingDemocracyProgressAstonishingDemocracies HaveSocial ProgressIrreversible Author:Tony Kushner
“It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.” DoeHardDemocracyProgressSpeciesStrikesEmployersHeartedHarmonious Author:B. C. Forbes
“Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.” GoalGrowthHurtDemocracyProgressInstrumentsStability Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Today the Iraqi and Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom. The governments that are rising will pose no threat to others. Instead of harboring terrorists, they're fighting terrorist groups. And this progress is good for the long-term security of all of us.” PeopleLongGovernmentTodayFightingTermDemocracyPathProgressGroupsSecurityThreatTerroristLong TermRisingAfghanTerrorist Groups Author:George W. Bush
“Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress.” PeopleBelieveWellsHas BeensDemocracyProgressConceptsStuckRepresentatives Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.” DemocracyProgressTruth IsFoundersLinkedWork In Progress Author:Amy Richards
“Take the US. Women were not even able to vote until 90 ago, at about the same time they gained the right in Afghanistan. Rights of former slaves were very limited until the 1960s, and in some ways still are. In these and other domains there has been progress in democracy, though still seriously flawed. In other dimensions - the control of concentrated wealth over the political process, for example, things have gotten much worse in recent years. And there is much more, in both directions.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsAblePoliticalProcessWealthDemocracyRightsProgressExampleVoteSlaveFormerDimensionsAfghanistanDomainFlawed1960s Author:Noam Chomsky
“In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.” MadeCountrySoundTermDemocracyProgressAdministrationContinentsGreat Progress Author:Jimmy Carter