Norman Mailer Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.

• Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Home, Grace

• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Childhood, Grace

• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, America, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'My Hope For America'.

• The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

  Norman Mailer

  Democracy, Nightmare, Ends

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Democracy, Arguing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Democracy, Flags

  Norman Mailer (2003). “Why are We at War?”, Random House Incorporated

• People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

  Norman Mailer

  Crazy, People, Democracy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Democracy, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

  Norman Mailer

  Two, Democracy, Get Better

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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