“No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.” MayDoePrinciplesDemocracySocietyProduceDisciplineLimitsAuthorityEthicsClimateToleranceRegimesCoexistenceIrresponsibility Author:Paulo Freire
“Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.” PeopleIfsGovernmentDemocracyCenturyHabitDisciplineDemocraticSevenDecadesBritainAcquireDemocratic GovernmentTraverse Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick
“Education in democracy must be carried on within the Party so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice. Only in this way can we really extend democracy within the Party and at the same time avoid ultra-democracy and the laissez-faire that destroys discipline.” WayShouldPartyPracticeDemocracyDisciplineMembersDemocraticLaissez FaireUltras Author:Mao Zedong
“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.” SelfStatesLastsSocialResultsClassDemocracyHabitDisciplineAuthorityRootsObedienceAcquireCapitalistRulersSocialistCommitteesSelf DisciplineWorking ClassBourgeoisReplacementsOld HabitsServilitySocial Democracy Author:Rosa Luxemburg
“If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.” IfsShouldSelfProblemWould BeValuesEnergyDemocracyTakenFailingDisciplineLeavingSubstanceLackingSelf DisciplineCommonwealthPersonal Problems Author:Margery Wilson
“Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.” DoeLawLibertyDemocracyRightsProduceDisciplineExerciseBasesGuaranteesStrictTrue Democracy Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.” Has BeensSelfChristianSpiritualForceSidesInterestResponsibilityPrinciplesDemocracyGroupsDisciplineLosingIndependenceSatisfiedDictatorshipSelf DisciplineVulgarityFadsPressured Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.” LastsFreedomDemocracyDisciplineBlessingAnalysisGreatest Blessings Book:Baruch: The Public Years Source: Baruch: The Public Years
“We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.” PartyDemocracyPolicyCitizensDisciplineActiveAnarchyParticipationBourgeoisImplementingBabblingActive Participation Author:Nicolae Ceausescu