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Births

• 1780 - Elizabeth Fry
• 1964 - Arthur C. Brooks
• 1844 - Henri Rousseau
• 1921 - Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
• 1873 - Hans Berger

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• 1995 - Les Aspin
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• 1935 - Jane Addams

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, SantCa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Heaven, Dreams

• Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in More And More, People

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Half, Suspicion

• Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

  Aeschines

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizen, Armed, Guard, Suspicion

• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Peace

• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Radicals, Liberals, Conservatives, Solidarity, Change/Growth

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Responsibility

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Blunder, Anew, Opportunities

• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Ethics, Inclusion, Interdependence, Good

• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Democracy, Respect

  Tags in Equal

• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Action

• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Action

• Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Statistics, Abuse

• The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Compassion, Human Rights, Government, Women

• The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

  Kate Adie

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Information, Works

• It means that, in fact, it’s – whether fascist is the right word I don’t know – more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Controlled, Wealthy, Elite, Fascists, Resembling, Word

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

  Dr. William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Democracy, Dissent, Politics

  Tags in Patriotism, War

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Nonviolence, War

• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in War

• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Equality, Human Nature