The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President · USA
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. - George F. Kennan Diplomat · USA
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. - Hendrik Hertzberg
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. - Herbert Marcuse
