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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two main political parties.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.
The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.
No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies.
Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.
In the absolute majority of western democracies - elected officials are the ones who appoint the highest bench in the judicial system. There is no reason for us to lag behind.
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of dictators.
The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
We so often tend to think our democracies are ruled by procedures and laws, but they are also governed by implicit rules and assumptions and one of them is the ability to feel shame - that you can be shamed.
Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.
The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.
I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems to have befuddled the United States (U.S.).
The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.
It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.
Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.
Governments,
whether they're dictatorships or democracies,
reflect the people.
When the people get fed up,
they throw them out.
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.
Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
We need autocracies and failing democracies alike to understand that they cannot scapegoat LGBT citizens to distract from their own shortcomings.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.