Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Walter Lippmann

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

Ruhollah Khomeini

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

Wynton Marsalis

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

Laura Bush

The message is one of jobs and democracy and honesty and open government, ... Good foreign policy starts in your neighborhood.

Their example is an inspiration to all who share the universal values of freedom, democracy and the rule of law, ... This is a document of which the Iraqis and the rest of the world can be proud.

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Bill Clinton

The essential thing about democracy is that no one is indispensable.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

A born democrat is a born disciplinarian.

Mahatma Gandhi

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Mahatma Gandhi

The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

Larry Flynt

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

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.