Democracy Quotes
Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.