30 famous quotes for democracy by Edemos ka210 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9 Add the quote of a famous politician, historian, writer or any other famous person about democracy. en-us 2022-05-06 13:13:11 UTC 2022-05-27 15:09:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1689544529/d97e5025d63858a131972692f982da96/ac6a87e51_opt.jpg https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199169471 Democracy must be something more than 2 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. 
-James Bovard, writer and teacher (1956-)]]> 2022-05-25 10:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199169471 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199170749 Democracy is also accepting a torelable dose of  injustice  to avoid major injustices
-Umberto Eco (writer 1932-2016)]]> 2022-05-25 10:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199170749 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199171726 Politics is the means for men without principles to direct men without memories.
(Voltaire philosopher 1694- 1778)]]> 2022-05-25 10:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199171726 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199172495 "Things are joined by invisible bonds. You can't pick a flower without upsetting a star"
(Galileo Galilei, physicist, 1564/1642)]]> 2022-05-25 10:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199172495 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199172497 Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose widely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
(Franklin Roosevelt, american politician and president, 1882-1945)]]> 2022-05-25 10:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199172497 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199173254 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
(George Bernard Shaw, an Irish writer, 1856-1950)]]> 2022-05-25 10:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199173254 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199173694 Democracy doesn't mean that the majority is always right. It means that the majority has the right to govern
-Umberto Eco (writer 1932-2016)]]> 2022-05-25 10:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199173694 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199174612 Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
(Henry Louis Mencken, journalist, 1880-1956)]]> 2022-05-25 10:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199174612 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199174916 Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you -Pericle (429 b.C. politician)]]> 2022-05-25 10:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199174916 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175422 As well as I wouldn't want to be a salve, so I wouldn't want to be a master. That expresses my idea of democracy.
(Abraham Lincoln, american politician and lawyer, 1809-1865)]]> 2022-05-25 10:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175422 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175692  Life is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be kindle.
( Plutarco, Biographer, 47 d. C.)


]]> 2022-05-25 10:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175692 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175850 To the most perfect democracy, will always prefer an imperfect dictatorship.
( Sandro Pertini, ex president of the Italian Republic 1896-1990 ) ]]> 2022-05-25 10:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199175850 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176347 When the storm is over, you probably won't even know how you got through it and got out alive. In fact, you wont even be sure if it's really over. But there is no doubt about a point, that you out the wind will never be the same enteredin.
(Kafka on the beach, Haruki Murakami, writer 1949-2009)]]> 2022-05-25 10:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176347 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176675 The tyranny of a prince in a oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of citizen in a democracy. 
(Montesquieu politician 1689-1755)]]> 2022-05-25 10:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176675 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176851 When the majority claims to be always right and the minority doesn't dare to react, then democracy is in danger.
(Umberto Eco, philosopher and writer, 1982-2016)]]> 2022-05-25 10:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199176851 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199177717 No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent
-Abraham Lincoln (President of the USA, 1809-1865)]]> 2022-05-25 10:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199177717 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178014 The love of democracy is that of equality -Montesquieu 
(philosopher, 1689-1755)]]> 2022-05-25 10:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178014 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178024 Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others .
(W. Chirchill  1874-1965 english prime minister)]]> 2022-05-25 10:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178024 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178985 "Peace cannot be separated from freedom because no one can be at peace without having freedom".
Malcolm X
American minister
1925-1965

]]> 2022-05-25 10:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199178985 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179030 In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
(Aristotele, philosopher of scienze, 384a.C-322a.C)]]> 2022-05-25 10:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179030 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179384 "As a long man exploits man, as long as humanity is divided into masters and servants, there will be neither normality nor peace. The reason for all the evil of our time is here. "
( Pier Paolo Pasolini, poet, 1922/1975)]]> 2022-05-25 10:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179384 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179446 In Democracy no fact of life escapes politics
( Gandhi, Politial, 1869-1948 )]]> 2022-05-25 10:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179446 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179597 I'm afraid of losing democracy because I know what non-democracy is. Democracy is slowly being lost in geneal indifference,because it's convenient not to take sides.
(Liliana Segre, senator of the Italian Republic and witness of the Shoah; 1930, -)]]> 2022-05-25 10:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179597 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179624 Democracy is when the people keep a government in check (Aung San Suu Kyi, politica 1945)]]> 2022-05-25 10:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199179624 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199180592 Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
(Albert Camus, writer, 1913-1960)]]> 2022-05-25 10:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199180592 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199181601 Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is the right to live with dignity. 
(Naomi Klein 1970-, journalist)]]> 2022-05-25 10:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199181601 "Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself."(J.K. Chesterton, English writer,philosopher,1874-1836) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199781144 2022-05-25 18:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199781144 "Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort." (J.F. Kennedy,American politician,1917-1963) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199787866 2022-05-25 18:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199787866 I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. -Mohandas Gandhi,Indian leader(1869-1948) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199795391 2022-05-25 18:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199795391 Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”. -Abraham Lincoln,American president, 1809-1865 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199801444 2022-05-25 18:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199801444 "If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Swiss-French philosopher,1712-1778 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199806400 2022-05-25 18:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199806400 "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." Robert Byrne,American author,(1930-2016) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199808701 2022-05-25 18:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199808701 "The real safeguard of democracy...is education." Franklin Roosvelt,American politician and president(1882-1945) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199811019 2022-05-25 18:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199811019 "Democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders."Robert A. Dahl, American political theorist(1915-2014) 'A Preface To Democratic Theory'. https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199813479 2022-05-25 18:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199813479 "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy."Kofi Annan,Ghanaian diplomat,1938-2018 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199816690 2022-05-25 18:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199816690 "The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."Aristotle, Greek philosopher,384-322BC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199820932 2022-05-25 19:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199820932 "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, Greek philosopher,384-322 BC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199822765 2022-05-25 19:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199822765 Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.Plato, Greek philosopher(428/427-348/347 BC) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199834002 2022-05-25 19:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199834002 An educated, enlightened and informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy. Nelson Mandela,South-African political leader(1918-2013) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199837184 2022-05-25 19:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199837184 Freedom of expression — in particular, freedom of the press — guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. Corazon Aquino,Filipina politician -president(1933-2009) https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199849207 2022-05-25 19:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199849207 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199853777 Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Ronald Reagan,American president,1911-2004]]> 2022-05-25 19:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199853777 You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.— Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199857654 2022-05-25 19:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199857654 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199867796 "Democracy is an unfinished experiment."
Walt Whitman, American poet(1819-1892)]]> 2022-05-25 19:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199867796 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199868905 "There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
Ralph Nader, American consumer advocate and political activist]]> 2022-05-25 20:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199868905 Citizenship is what makes a republic -- monarchies can get along without it. https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199878722 Twain, Mark,American writer (1835-1910)]]> 2022-05-25 20:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199878722 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199880516  
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plato Greek philosopher (427BC- 367BC)
]]> 2022-05-25 20:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199880516 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199883592 In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Fulbright, J. William U.S. Senator (1905-1995) ]]> 2022-05-25 20:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199883592 “There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.” Dimosthenes, Greek statesman and orator,284-322 BC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199888516 2022-05-25 20:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199888516 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199890679 “A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”
John Dewey,American philosopher and psychologist(1859-1952)]]> 2022-05-25 20:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199890679 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199894121 “Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.”
Indira Gandhi,Indian prime minister(1917-1984)]]> 2022-05-25 20:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199894121 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199898206 “Democratic contrivances are quarantine measures against that ancient plague, the lust for power: as such, they are very necessary and very boring.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher(1844-1900)]]> 2022-05-25 20:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199898206 Democracy https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199899523 “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
George Orwell, English novelist(1903-1950)]]> 2022-05-25 20:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2199899523 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200493979 Democracy is not exempt from traumas and diseases. But the dictatorship is a doctor who kills the sick. 
(Fabrizio Caramagna,Aphorist/Writer,1969)]]> 2022-05-26 06:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200493979 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200627025 "Democracy exists where there is no one so rich to buy another man and no one so poor to sell himself" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Phylosopher, 1712/1778)]]> 2022-05-26 08:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200627025 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200630770 "If voting made any difference they wuoldn't let us do it" (Mark Twain, Writer, 1835/1910)]]> 2022-05-26 08:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200630770 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200638125 
"Democracy was invented as a mechanism to decide through participation, and not to participate regardless of decisions"  ( Pier Luigi Bersani, politician and writer, 1951)
]]> 2022-05-26 09:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200638125 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200641086 "I don't want to be a slave, but I don't want to be a master either. This expresses my idea of ​​democracy" (Abraham Lincoln, 16 president of the United States, 1809/1865)

]]> 2022-05-26 09:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200641086 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200657033 "The greatest attraction of each of us is towards the past, because it is the only thing we really know and love"
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film director and poet
1992-1975]]> 2022-05-26 09:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200657033 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200683651 Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm.
(Benito Juarez, lawyer, 1806-1872)]]> 2022-05-26 10:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200683651 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200688036 What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. 
(Mahatma Gandhi, Indian prime minister 1917-1984)]]> 2022-05-26 10:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200688036 https://padlet.com/edemos210/5jrdz7udq9ip5ds9/wish/2200691592 Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition.
(Poul Henningsen, was a Danish architect and designer, 1894-1967)

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