Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Harry Belafonte
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of... →
Chris Bell
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William Bennett
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a... →
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without... →
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
The motive power of democracy is love.
Henri Bergson