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英语格言警句_Democracy_(D2)
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
- Louis D. Brandeis
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.
- ArnoldToynbee
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power.
- Madame de Stael
A munity is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
- A. Philip Randolph
The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.
- Paulo Freire
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course -- because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Miller
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.
- William Ellery Channing
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a puter the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice -- a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.
- Wendy Kaminer
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it bees stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evan Hughes
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
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
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.
- Jim Hightower
Democracy is this -- to hold That all who wander down the pike In cart or car, on foot or bike, Or male or female, young or old, Are much alike -- are much alike.
- Alice Duer Miller
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always e from the bottom up from our people.
- Howard Dean
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
- Woodrow Wilson
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Thomas Mann
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 K. Gandhi
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -- moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -- but no opinion.
- Hannah Arendt
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
- Jim Hightower
It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.
- Mary Parker Follett
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
- Thomas Mann
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that mon social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
- Anna Garlin Spencer
Representative government is closer to democracy than monarchy, and for this reason it has been hailed as one of the great political advances of modern times; yet, it is only a step in the direction of democracy, at its best.
- Howard Zinn
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to bee.
- Anna Garlin Spencer
The right to live one's life, in privacy and freedom, in whatever way one wants, so long as others are not harmed, should be a sacred principle in a democracy.
- Howard Zinn
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
- Howard Zinn
The great danger for American democracy is not from the protesters. That democracy is too poorly realized for us to consider critics -- even rebels -- as the chief problem. Its fulfillment requires us all, living in an ossified system which sustains too much killing and too much selfishness, to join the protest.
- Howard Zinn
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
- Barry Goldwater
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
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to bat evil and advance the good.
- A. J. Muste
Democracy is not being, it is being. It is easily lost, but never finally won.
- William Hastie
Citizenship is what makes a republic -- monarchies can get along without it.
- Mark Twain
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
- Lillian Hellman
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
- Will Rogers
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan