Quotes by Democracy In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy. Aristotle democracy government law The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little. Aristotle democracy littles water The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon. Arlen Specter democracy weapons numbers Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. Arlen Specter voting democracy fundamentals The essence of a democracy is a free electorate. Arlen Specter transcendentalism democracy essence A global democracy works only when countries trust one another. Armstrong Williams trust democracy country The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate. Arnold Mindell relate democracy goal Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . . Arthur Curley democracy political organization The possible signs of a coming collapse are the same as the greatest strengths of Western civilization: democracy, capitalism, the generally peaceful linking of world economic systems, our amazing success in harnessing the powers of nature to the betterment of the human condition in health, subsistence, longevity. These are the hallmarks of our society - its most successful elements. Arthur Demarest peaceful democracy successful I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. Arthur Henderson democracy civilization believe There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. Arthur Jensen democracy america world The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. democracy leader believe Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. democracy educational politician There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. presidential democracy war Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Arundhati Roy democracy taken mean The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. Arundhati Roy pillars democracy media As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom. Arundhati Roy democracy opposites mean I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in some ways eroded caste turned out not to be the case, that it has in fact been entrenched and modernised. Arundhati Roy democracy play ideas Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of India's poorest? We would hear a lot about socialist appropriation and the death of democracy. Why should taking from the rich be called appropriation and taking from the poor be called development? Arundhati Roy democracy government people In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy. Ashleigh Brilliant growing-up democracy ideas «678910111213141516»