Democracy Quotes

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

Those who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.

The few Americans he had encountered in his lifetime had all seemed flat to him, as if freedom weakened one's capacity for intense emotion by demanding too little of it.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences

Democracy is an illusion in which we all believe.

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

Our ancestors wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives to fight against tyranny, and we are allowing that very same tyranny to exist! Let us open our eyes!

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Infusing the cultural war with love, respect and empathy is the responsibility of every one who cares about the health and wellbeing of women, our families and communities, and our democracy.

All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who’s under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

Human rights don't trickle down.

Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least