Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Joe Greene

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Hazel Blears

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Karen Armstrong

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Katharine Weymouth

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Mario Cuomo

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Mark McKinnon

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Pearl S. Buck

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

John Sayles

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

John Pilger

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Nick Lampson

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Edward Bond

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Edward Bellamy

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Albee

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Henry Spencer

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

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.