Democracy Quotes

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

Trust is very much a part of our democracy.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Freedom is participation in power.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.