Democracy Quotes

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.

I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled a sort of inverted totalitarianism.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.

I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a say in how they want their country being run. You know, that's a part of the privilege of democracy.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Democracy is about criticism.

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one.

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.