Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
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