Democracy Quotes

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

Ultimately as much as the film industry is a business, it's a democracy. And the audience votes on how they feel based on the way they spend their money for tickets.

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

Why are you sitting here when our democracy is under assault with the FBI acting at the behest of [Republican Congressman] Jason Chaffetz and sitting here acting like it is something legit?

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

The general will is always right.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.