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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.”

“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.”

“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.”

Ifs World Ends Facts Literature Given Effects Method Democratic Our World Traffic Ecology End Times Galaxy Garbage Jam Greenhouses Velocity Untouchables Traffic Jam Garbage Disposal

Author:Jose Saramago

“The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.”

Government Goes On Method Democratic Manhood Slaughter

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.”

Language India Method Democratic Britain English Language Englishmen

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.”

Ifs Humans Ends Demand Method Democratic Conclusion Realization Human Experience

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.”

World Way Giving Firsts Wells Force Struggle Military Succeed Giving Up Ideals Method Democratic Resorts Imposing Old World Military Force

Book:The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology

Source: The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology

“As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.”

Men Character Dog Men And Women Method Democratic Justify Soundness

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”

People Way Issues Criticism Method Democratic Settling Discussion Persuasion Repression Coercion Controversial Ideological Controversial Issues

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“I know Donald's [Trump] very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really tough, long game here. And one of the things he's done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information.”

Knows Trying Long Done Government Games Information Trump Tough Method Democratic Committees Files Putin Hacks Cyber Havoc Praiseworthy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.”

Impossible Car Type Limits Method Train Democratic Speed Accidents Application Passengers Brake

Author:Leon Trotsky

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places