#democracy

Der Endzweck des Staates ist [...] im Grund die Freiheit. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#freedom #rechtsstaat #freedom

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free. ↗

— Jacque Fresco

#freedom #freedom

ignorance is the enemy of democracy ↗

— Thomas Jeferson

#freedom

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being. ↗

— Karl Popper

#freedom

the government bailed out the corporate sector. while the people thay supported the government financally, were ignored and left to fend for themselves. is this what you call democracy? ↗

— Jeffrey Fischer

#freedom #marxism #freedom

you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation. ↗

— Jeffrey Fischer

#marxism #freedom

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#communism #democracy #destroy #destroys

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#characterize #civil #civil liberties #democracy #fear

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. ↗

— George Soros

#america #because #chose #civil #civil liberties

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#democracy #find #great #our #practicing