Democracy Quotes

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

if the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.