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"Democracy" is a song by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen featuring Jeff Fisher, first released on Cohen's 1992 album The Future. The lyrics discuss the failings and the promise of democracy in the United States. The song was written approximately during the fall of the Berlin Wall, which led Cohen to question where democracy came from. Cohen stated that it was "a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy" in the United States.
“If this democracy is to survive, it is imperative that the judiciary as an institution and judges as individuals are not only impartial to those who appear before them but also that the wider public have the confidence that cases affecting their well-being will be decided fairly and in accordance with the law.”
“Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today's problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.”
“Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.”
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
“A charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike.”
“You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. ... We haven’t benefited from America's democracy; we’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy. And the generation that’s coming up now can see it and are not afraid to say it.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Not who you're looking for? Others named Democracy: system in which sovereignty resides in the people and their · play by Michael Frayn · episode of Numbers (S3 E18) · 1996 eleventh studio album of English post-punk group Killin
