Democracy Quotes
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.
Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.
If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.
That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.