“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.” HumansAbleIndividualGivenImaginationCommonExpressionCapacityDignityDemocraticPracticalsCommon SenseThanksPanicUnderrated Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.” PeopleLawForceJusticeViolenceAcceptanceExpressionOrganizationClaimsStructureDemocraticBonesWideToleranceAlternativesOppositionSchemesProceduresDissentDemocratic SocietyLatitude Author:Abe Fortas
“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.” KindImportantIdeasStatesCertainChoicesCoursesDecisionAnimalImagineStyleParticularExpressionHairMassBasesDemocraticLeavingCommandPropagandaVotingControlledVotersImagine ThatPreferenceCircusSuitableFacialOratoryBe EncouragedImportant DecisionsImplantsTruismFacial Expression Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.” StillsIndividualExampleExpressionInternetAdvantageStructureDemocraticMarketingInternationalAdvertisingCorporateRealisticVehicleSooner Or LaterTechnologicalIndividual Expression Author:Herbert Schiller
“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.” HumansPrinciplesConditionsExpressionEnlightenmentUltimateDemocraticInsecurityHuman ConditionMaximumFreedom Of ExpressionNervousness Author:Jeremy Griffith
“There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal stability, each is controlled by an Arafat-type figure - an anti-democratic strongman who is able to crush all challenges to his authority. Likewise, among those Arab countries that aren't ruled by a despot, the political dynamic is also consistent: In Lebanon, Iraq, and now Gaza, sectarian violence is the dominant form of political expression.” WorldCountryTodayAbleFormPoliticalChallengesViolenceFiguresExpressionTypeAuthorityDemocraticIraqCrushConsistentInternalsControlledStabilityDominantGovernanceGazaLebanonDespotsArab WorldArafat Author:Michael Totten