#democracies

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Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.


Alain de Botton


#democracies #free-speech #money #opinion #organizations

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.


Aristotle


#degenerate #democracies #into #republics

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.


Barney Frank


#democracies #elections #england #israel #japan

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.


Roberto Unger


#born #cultures #democracies #division #emancipation

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.


Warren Christopher


#both #caribbean #central #countries #democracies

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.


Hillary Clinton


#become #careful #democracies

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.


Aleksandr Lebed


#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.


Thomas E. Mann


#comes #conduct #democracies #elections #structure

All of my novels are democracies.


Amos Oz


#novels

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.


Romano Prodi


#equilibrium #information #minimized #must #politics