#democracy

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#complement #democracy #inevitable #obstacle

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 A. Schumpeter

#arrangement #arriving #being #certain #decisions

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#ad #afghanistan #because #bush #campaign

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#east #israel #middle #middle east #only

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#any #arab #democracy #hard #ignore

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#bring #democracy #destroyed #first #germany

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#duty #gone #meaning #only #remain

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #form

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #incompetent