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It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.
This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
I am going to continue to fight for our democracy, for representation, for justice and equality and making the world a better place.
In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.
It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.