Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
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We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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