Democracy Quotes
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.
We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.
Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.
Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
