Democratic Ideals quotes

Democratic Ideals

15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

15 quotes
Charles Edison
Charles Edison Inventor, Businessman

"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."

Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation."

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