Democracy Quotes

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy.

In Kingdom - Like the King, Like the People In Democracy - Like the People, Like the Ruler

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY.

Money has replaced the vote.

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

The greatest threats to Democracy are comfort and apathy.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Democracy is a western term for a dictatorship that hasn't come out of the closet.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

Democracy is in conflict with individual freedom.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.

Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we, ” like football fans talking about the home team.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

The absolute value of being neutral is zero.

When bad news sells, money politics buys.

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.