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“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.”

Age Democracy Offers Capitalism Weak Active Digital Representatives Citizenship Mandates Digital Age Deliberation Citizenry Active Citizenship

Author:Don Tapscott

“A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.”

States Strong Democracy Weak Democratic Welfare Proven

Book:Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

Source: Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.”

Country Dies Democracy Politician One Day Weak Our Country Brazil Weakening

Author:Carolina Maria de Jesus

“Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.”

People Men Democracy Weakness Weak Add Brave Bounds Collections Aristocracy Weak Man

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.”

Ifs Strong Democracy Weak Stable Exploits

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.”

Grows Democracy Weak Strain Oligarchy

Author:Aristotle

“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”

Able Half Enemy Democracy Capitalism Advantage Weak Other Half Democracies Have One Half

Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy