There are various groups and publications called Democracy Watch throughout the world, including:
- Democracy Watch (Canada), the first organization in the world called Democracy Watch, is a monitoring and advocacy group based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Democracy Watch (International), a watchdog organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Democracywatch, a development organization in Bangladesh
- Democracy Watch, a publication of the Transition Monitoring Group in Nigeria
Famous quotes containing the words democracy and/or watch:
“The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.... The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: “the contemplation of ruins,” Erikson observes, “is a masculine specialty.””
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)