All 3 Uses of
democracy
in
The Fountainhead
- He predicted a better world to come, where all men would be brothers and their buildings would become harmonious and all alike, in the great tradition of Greece, "the Mother of Democracy."†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Others declared that there was a certain similarity between the design of Cortlandt and Roark's style of building, that Keating, Prescott and Webb might have borrowed a little from Roark—"a legitimate adaptation"—"there's no property rights on ideas"—"in a democracy, art belongs to all the people"—and that Roark had been prompted by the vengeance lust of an artist who had believed himself plagiarized.†
Chpt 4.13
- The situation is medieval and a disgrace to democracy.†
Chpt 4.16
Definition:
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(democracy) a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes