Democracy Quotes

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

American democracy has been hacked.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

I worry about the entire structure of American democracy under Trump.

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.