Democracy Quotes

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Democracy fascinates me.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

It's great that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. I can't wait to see how we do it! What are we gonna do, give them our civics textbooks?

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.