Democracy Quotes

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

Democracy is good for everybody.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

Democracies don't go to war.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

Many who have voted for the AfD, or who intend to do so, aren't doing so because they are dyed-in-the-wool enemies of democracy. Rather, they are desperate.

For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it