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“Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.”

Mind Art Moments Government Difficult Common Democracy Habit Citizens Spheres Literacy Ratios Habits Of Mind

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“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.”

People Ifs Government Democracy Century Habit Discipline Democratic Seven Decades Britain Acquire Democratic Government Traverse

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“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.”

“The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.”

Liberty Moral Cases Democracy Economic Habit Expectations Trade Monetary Economic Freedom

Book:The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary

“...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.”

Mean Stills Political Social Wealth Half Virtue Democracy Century Position Habit Vices Characteristics Englishmen Half A Century Subservience

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.”

Should Reality Culture Democracy Habit Customs

Author:Bashar al-Assad