Democracy Quotes
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Citizenship has been out of fashion for some decades in our country, but now it is back in fashion. Weekends are for fighting tyranny. And that's why it's going to be really fun to see Democracy Now!
The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
The chief support of an autocracy is a standing army. The chief support of a democracy is an educated people.
People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.
We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.