Democracy Quotes
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.
