At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
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So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.
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Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.
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Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.
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Stock ownership in the us is very highly concentrated. [shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old communist party in the ussr, it would be nice to see more protest inside the communist party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.
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It turned out that [bill] clinton had authorized texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in haiti] during a time when we were supposedly opposing the military junta and supporting democracy instead.
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth
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In some respects i have been the most unlucky because i have spent more time living as a refugee outside my country than i have spent in tibet. On the other hand, it has been very rewarding for me to live in a democracy and to learn about the world in a way that we tibetans had never known before.
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
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Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the west, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.
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The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . Democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and i am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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I don't know much about capitalism, but i do know about democracy and freedom, and if capitalism may change in many, many ways, i'm not really very much interested in capitalism.
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The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy, but also they've led to stagnation or decline for large parts of the population - the working class, the lower middle class, these people have essentially been cast aside.
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