2,003 Quotes About Democracy

this country has made a Fetish of democracy in the community, but in large part it's a guilty conscience because it's missing from the work life. And what possible excuse is there?

The great lie of democracy, its essential paradox, is that democracy is first to be sacrificed when its security is at risk. Every state is totalitarian at heart; there are no ends to the cruelty it will go to to protect itself.

Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Companies that are indifferent to democracy have acquired an outsized role in it.

Una sociedad democrática verdadera debe servir a su pueblo, no a grandes empresas, al bienestar de sus ciudadanos, no a los bolsillos corporativos. Pero cuando tienes corporaciones que compran los asientos de nuestros líderes políticos, a quién piensan que van a servir?

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Rather than prioritize the dominant narratives, Internet search platforms and technology companies could allow for greater expression and serve as a democratizing tool for the public.

The inhabitant of New England is attached to his township not so much because he was born there as because he sees in that township a free and strong corporation that he is a part of and that is worth his trouble to seek to direct.

The four greatest threats to humanity are fundamentalism, nationalism, transhumanism and democracy.