Democracy Quotes

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

earn what you can since everything's for sale

Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

We want to remember that America is at its best when it’s struggling to live up to its stated ideals.

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Youths are our arrows to the future.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage(From LONE WOLF, p.50)

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve.

May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!

Being called a murderer: fine, I have no objection to that. It's a fact: I am a sinner, a fallen human. But to be called a murderer by the police!

In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.

Tribal Chief 1: The will of the people is what is best. That is what democracy meansTribal Chief 2: But if the people don’t know what they are talking about, how can that be the best?

A democracy is not truly democratic unless it's secular.

No blue-blooded family, however degenerate, could have produced the idiots one finds in any parliament.

Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems.

You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito", I'd tell people.