Democracy Quotes

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

There is no democracy without dissent.

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never stable; it's a permanent discussion about finding a way back.

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

As I was saying, half a democracy is showing up and people have got not only to agree with this agenda, some of these third parties listeners, they've got to show up.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

Democracy is always frustrating.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered internationally.

I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Everybody says, "Well, if it's a democracy, let them have nuclear weapons." America is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons. We're the only ones, this democracy, our great democracy.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.