Quotes by Democracies Have It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away. Karl Marx democracies-havedemocracyyears If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It Ken Livingstone democracies-havevotingpolitical Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Kofi Annan democracies-haveteachingeducation Education is a human right with immense power to transform Kofi Annan democracies-havedemocracyeducation And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax. L. Ron Hubbard democracies-haveselfmen One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm. Lech Walesa democracies-havedemocracyfaster Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. Llewellyn Rockwell majority-ruledemocracies-havedemocracy The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton majority-ruledemocracies-haveparty It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. Lord Acton democracies-haveequalityfreedom The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. Lord Acton majority-ruledemocracies-haveevil Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the liberal democratic systems. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad democracies-havetwofall I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. Mahatma Gandhi democracies-havefreedomstrong The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. Mahatma Gandhi democracies-havedemocracyfreedom The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows. Mary Parker Follett democracies-havewomenopportunity Once the philosophical foundation of democracy has collapsed, the statement that dictatorship is bad is rationally valid only for those who are not its beneficiaries, and there is no theoretical obstacle to the transformation of this statement into its opposite. Max Horkheimer democracies-havephilosophicalopposites Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. Meg Greenfield democracies-havefreedompractice The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act. Michael Hardt democracies-havedemocracycommunication The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. Mohamed ElBaradei democracies-havedreamheart I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. Neil Young democracies-haveusacountry The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. Noam Chomsky australia-daydemocracies-havemean«12345678»
