#democracy

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#export #hollywood #only #trying

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#abuse #democracy #statistics

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#democracy #democratic #democratic process #exercising #majority

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#chance #democracy #dream #give #grateful

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#badly #democracy #educated #government #means

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #american #among #bond #democracy