#racy

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#extraordinary #free #free society #live #mind

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest! ↗

— Peter Hook

#loudest #shouts #tends #us #who

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#awful #beloved #corruption #cost #day

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#convention #convinced #democracy #direct #exposure

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people. ↗

— Jinato Hu

#countries #democracy #democratic #earnestly #mankind

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#country #democracy #fact #in fact #leaders

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#everybody #i #lord #me #means

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

#advantageous #beauty #case #delicate #every

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#democracy #enough #extend #idea #lose