Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down.
[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich. They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard Dean, the "Dean Scream. " Jesse Jackson, another kind of PR smear campaign. Meanwhile, the party keeps marching to the right and becomes more corporatist and elitist and imperialist.
Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.
Islam is not a race. . . Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.
Americans like to humiliate wrongdoers. . . We like, in short, to punish. It makes us feel good. By every conceivable metric - arrests, prosecutions, duration of sentences, conditions of imprisonment - the United States is by far the most punitive rich democracy.
If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy
Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in trust for future generations. Corporations cannot act philanthropically in America.