Quotes with democracies

  • I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
  • All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
  • The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • B. W. Powe Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
    Towards A Canada of Light A Prayer For Canada, p. 5
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Barney Frank In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Alan Dershowitz Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Aristotle Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Noam Chomsky The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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