Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Sheehan

That's democracy. He should be doing the will of the people.

Richard Boucher

expanding economic opportunity and democracy (and) respect for the rule of law.

Pierre Corneille

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Pete Domenici

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Phillip E. Johnson

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Peter Ustinov

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

Terence McKenna

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

Randall Robinson

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

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.

Sidney Hook

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

Leonard Cohen

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

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.

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.

Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.

Lee H. Hamilton

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton

Democracy fascinates me.

Lee Harvey Oswald

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

Lewis H. Lapham

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Leon Wieseltier

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,

Karl Rove

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

Juan Cole

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.

Joyce Cary

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Oswald Spengler

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.