70 Quotes About Democracies-have

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means what it bestows on us the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.