Elmer Eric Schattschneider Quotes

Democracy is a competitive political system in which competing leaders and organizations define the alternatives of public policy in such a way that the public can participate in the decision-making process.

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Respect

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  

  Olof Palme
  • People
  • Society
  • Democracy

• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Live
  • Evil
  • Democracy

• 'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Why
  • War
  • Democracy

• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Trying
  • History
  • Party

• MacAllister commented recently that Plato was right, that democracy is mob rule, that the voters can be counted on consistently to find the candidate with the fewest scruples and put him in office.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Democracy
  • Plato

• We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism. Congratulations America. Congratulations, Mister President. You got bin Laden. Good riddance!

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Good
  • America
  • Together

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Reading
  • Democracy

• There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Space

• I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Good
  • Why
  • Ideas

• With gentle hand, as seeming oft to pause,The purple curtains of the morn she draws.

  

  Aurora
  • She
  • Hand
  • Purple

• Only by knowing how far we have fallen will we understand what it is to rise again.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Rise
  • Far
  • Fallen

• Democracy is a competitive political system in which competing leaders and organizations define the alternatives of public policy in such a way that the public can participate in the decision-making process.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • Democracy
  • Leaders
  • Alternatives