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Letter "D" » Democracy
«In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
citizens, cruel, exercising, minority, oppressions
«In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.»
«In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority»
«In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.»
Author: John J. Sweeney
| About:
Democracy,
Globalization,
Leadership
| Keywords:
authoritarian, globalization, impose, societies, sustained
«In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.»
«In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.»
Author: Lincoln Kirstein
(Writer)
| About:
Anarchy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
anarchy, anxious, aristocratic, classic, compact, compacted, Freedom of expression, promising, traditional
«In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal.»
Author: Peter Blake
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
egalitarian, empowered, FHA, specified, specify, specifying
«In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility»
«In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Country,
Democracy,
Peace
| Keywords:
brotherly, brotherly love, cuckoo, cuckoos, cuckoo clock, five hundred, Switzerland
«In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, majority, supreme, Supreme Power, the poor
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