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16 Jan, 04:48:15
- “The entire worth of democracy resides in the conception that the worst should not be allowed to rule.”
- “All the values which the democratic movement has created for the modern world, the movement itself being merely its most recent form, are profoundly antiauthoritarian.”
- “What is needed is not more democracy, but more responsibility and a more conscious, responsible attitude by citizens toward the state.”
- “Democracy is the herd instinct in the individual.”
- “The lies which democracy tells itself about itself — the belief that it is realizing the natural order — can only be sustained by a tolerant blindness to the truth.”
- “A democracy may become firm on an shaky foundation and make a good use of a mediocre constitution. Democracy appeals to the masses and disguises its weaknesses. It replaces the principles of reason and justice with the majority opinion.”
- “It is the beginning of all freedom when the individual learns to acknowledge a higher authority than his own desires. This is the source of democratic thinking and the foundation of a democratic society.”
- “In democracy, people learn that their opinions can shape the destiny of their nation. They realize that their will accepted by a majority gives them power and legitimacy which they can use as they wish.”
- “The development of democracy requires many difficult and delicate adjustments and balancing acts — among groups and between disparate beliefs — and a willingness to compromise.”
- “Democracy is a form of government well adapted to a society in which the focus is on the power of the people and not the will of a tyrant or autocrat.”
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