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“One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed.”

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.”

Democracy Special Conflict Claims Method Judged

Book:The Political Writings

Source: The Political Writings

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”

People Men Stills Process Democracy He Man Higher Cost Prejudice Method Blame Investing Acquire Spite Grades Cost Of Living

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.”

Problem Democracy Findings Solutions Method

Book:The Irony of American History

Source: The Irony of American History

“As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.”

Government Opinion Democracy Duty Organization Method Believer Experiments Score Manifest Passages Mechanism Irrelevant Public Opinion Suffrage American Government

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”

Ends Political Certain Decision Democracy Type Method Incapable Arrangements Arriving Administrative

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”

Humans Said Government Poor Race Democracy Method Eight Favors Honestly Human Race Systems Of Government Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.”

Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry

“There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.”

Mean States Done Government Form Virtue Democracy Republican Method Seeds Aids Legislature Forms Of Government Rendering

Author:Benjamin Rush

“Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.”

Action Democracy Theory Revolution Mass Method Bourgeois French Revolution Philosophic

Author:Raya Dunayevskaya

“The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.”

“To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.”

World Reason Philosophy Humanity Natural Democracy Greater Atheism Century Method Humanism Humanist Twentieth Century Natural World Joyous Advocating Greater Good

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.”

Reason Liberty Democracy Speech Method Bounds Humanism Atmosphere Humanist Free Speech Civil Liberties Scientific Method Credo

Author:Corliss Lamont

“I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously”

Democracy Method Debate Promoting

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan