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    A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

    Norman Mailer
    Democracy
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    America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

    Woodrow Wilson
    Democracy
  3. 3

    Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Democracy, Education
  4. 4

    Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

    Gore Vidal
    Democracy
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    As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

    Abraham Lincoln
    Democracy
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    Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

    Florence King
    Democracy
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    Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

    Barack Obama
    Democracy, Religion
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    Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.

    Bob Dylan
    Democracy
  9. 9

    Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

    James Russell Lowell
    Democracy
  10. 10

    Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

    Plato
    Democracy
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    Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

    Joseph Schumpeter
    Democracy
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    Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

    Laurence J. Peter
    Democracy
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    Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

    H. L. Mencken
    Democracy
  14. 14

    Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    Democracy
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    Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

    Archibald MacLeish
    Democracy
  16. 16

    Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

    Woodrow Wilson
    Democracy
  17. 17

    Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

    Gore Vidal
    Democracy
  18. 18

    Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

    Jean Baudrillard
    Democracy
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    Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

    E. B. White
    Democracy
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    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

    H. L. Mencken
    Democracy
  21. 21

    Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

    G. K. Chesterton
    Democracy
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    Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    Oscar Wilde
    Democracy
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    Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

    Karl Kraus
    Democracy
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    Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

    George Bernard Shaw
    Democracy
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    Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

    Paul Klee
    Democracy

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