Democracy Quotes
Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.
What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.
The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.
Today, I think, the state of philosophizing about democracy is very healthy. It bridges political science and philosophy, as it should.
In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.
Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.
Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.
A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective.
Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.
Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.
Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here.
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
