“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.”— Hillary Clinton, esquire.com
“In a society like ours, where every man may transmute his private thought into history and destiny by dropping it into the ballot-box, a peculiar responsibility rests upon the individual … For, though during its term of office the government be practically as independent of the popular will as that…”— James Russell Lowell, amazon.com
“One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.com
“We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of a…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“The Founding Fathers had it right. There is an inherent danger coming from direct democracy when combined with an uninformed and manipulated public that has to decide the policy of a country, as we saw on June 23 when 36 percent of eligible voters in the UK chose to exit the European Union. Again, t…”— Franz-Stefan Gady, thediplomat.com
“Rhodes readily admitted to me that the work he does is a potentially dangerous distortion of democracy, but he also felt that it had become a necessary evil, caused by the fracturing of the 20th-century mass audience and the decline of the American press. He expressed a deep personal hopelessness ab…”— David Samuels, nytimes.com
“But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect: if liberals at least acknowledged that the recreational hunter feels the same way about his gun as they feel about their library books, and if conservatives recognized that most women…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com
“Newspapers are an essential element and symbol of the peculiar spirit and tendency which characterizes our civilization. There is no place to which they do not penetrate; no object which they may not serve; no description of person to whom they are not welcome.”— William Empson, amazon.com