Democracy Quotes

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.

It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

I’m a huge fan of the program Democracy Now, which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.

You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.