Democracy Quotes

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.

The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for what it truly is.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Liberty of the people is not my liberty!

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

Lynch mobs are democracies.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.