Democracy Quotes
I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.
Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
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.
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.
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.
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years
The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.
Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.
Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.
I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.