Democracy Quotes

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

The best revenge is democracy.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.