Quotes by Democracies Have Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. H. L. Mencken democracies-havefreedomreligion Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken democracies-havefreedompeople Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. Hans-Hermann Hoppe democracies-havefreedomtaken The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. H. L. Mencken democracies-havefreedomevil The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice. H. G. Wells democracies-havefreedomchoices Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. Harry Emerson Fosdick democracies-havefreedompeople Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both. H. L. Mencken democracies-havedemocracyenemy Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has ceased to exist.... Tyrants have come and have had their day and then have passed while religion has survived them all. Herbert H. Lehman democracies-havetyrantsfall Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. Friedrich Nietzsche democracies-havedemocracyfreedom Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote. Howard Zinn democracies-haverightsrunning That government is best which governs least. Henry David Thoreau democracies-havefreedomgovernment Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. Hillary Clinton democracies-havedrivendemocracy Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy. Hillary Clinton democracies-havehas-beensdemocracy There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov democracies-haveignorancemean Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged. Ivan Krastev democracies-havepeopleart With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. Jack Kemp democracies-haveevilwar Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard democracies-havehumortwo It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper democracies-havefreedommen No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. James Madison democracies-havefreedomwar Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. James Madison democracies-havefreedomrights«12345678»
