So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democra….
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy..
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of c….
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny..
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the sp….
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities..
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice..