Democracy Quotes
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
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.
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.
I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.
Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.