Democracy Quotes

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

If I like somebody else's tribe I'm going to promote the hell out of it. The whole thing is a democracy, and if somebody's more popular then good luck to them.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.