Democracy Quotes
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.
No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.
In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.
Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.
If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.
I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
I am and will remain the president of all Cameroonians without exception, and the great winner in these elections is democracy