Democracy Quotes

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.

Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.