Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Harvey Oswald

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Lewis Mumford

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Peter Ustinov

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter L. Berger

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Phil Donahue

There is no democracy without dissent.

Pierre Trudeau

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Phylicia Rashad

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Rachel Cohn

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

James F. Cooper

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

James Connolly

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

Jacques Maritain

The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy.

Henry A. Kissinger

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Henry Giroux

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

Manmohan Singh

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Manmohan Singh

Democracy is good for everybody.

Manmohan Singh

Democracy is good for world peace.

Manmohan Singh

India is a functioning democracy - despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Ronald Reagan

The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Anthony Kennedy

The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation.

Martin Schulz

If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.

Lech Walesa

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

Lech Walesa

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

John Redwood

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Sidney Hook

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Mehcad Brooks

I am part of the demographic and I love it.