#democracy

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life. ↗

— Evan Osnos

#authoritarianism #credibility #democracy #government #gun-policy

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #damn #democracy #freedom #give

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#corporate-influence #democracy #age

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#broken #college #course #dare #democracy

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#democracy #efficient #forms #government #grace

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#pluralism #true #victory

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#politics #society #courage

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#democracy #education #freedom #fulfilled #gifts

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best ↗