Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level there's little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
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I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. From Democracy in America
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Information is the currency of democracy.
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Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.
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Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes.
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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.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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