“One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests.... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.” KnowsHumansInterestHuman BeingsPowerDemocracyJudgingConceptsDemocraticShoesIdeologyAssumptionMaxims Author:Sidney Hook
“A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.” IfsWorldShouldHumansCountryStatesWould BeEarthHuman BeingsRaceDemocracyAliveExampleShameWaveCivilizedBurnedHumiliationLynching Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.” HumansKindReasonFactsFatherHuman BeingsSimpleDemocracyResponsibleCorporateDictatorshipFoundingOur Founding Fathers Author:Steven Van Zandt
“Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.” HumansEnoughHuman BeingsDemocracyGood Enough Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.” HumansDreamFightingHuman BeingsDemocracyBloodBottomFleshPatriotFlesh And Blood Author:Bill Moyers
“What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy.... Are we? I'm not so sure.” ThinkingKnowsHumansHappensUsedHuman BeingsDemocracyGoes OnOrdinaryEstablishmentPawns Author:David Suchet