Democracy Quotes
Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.
Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
What we see in a democracy governed by “representatives” is not a government “for the people” but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!
The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards.
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.
In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.
Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.
Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.
Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
Pops added, "you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected, " (Katherine) replied.
They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.
Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.
No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations
Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible
Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.
Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defea
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.
China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.