Quotes about democracy
democracy dictator judgment
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so. Harry Emerson Fosdick
democracy politics honest
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken
democracy politics
The general will is always right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
democracy doe vehicle
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle. Jacques Chirac
democracy noise
I like the noise of democracy. James Buchanan
democracy politics overpopulation
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Isaac Asimov
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. Florence King
democracy should liberal-democracy
The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended. Flemming Rose
democracy way blind
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. Henry Miller
democracy reform would-be
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. Jean Chretien
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. Christopher Lasch
democracy example saint
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example. Christopher Hitchens
democracy belief democratic
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies. Christine Lagarde
democracy favors
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
democracy internet free-speech
The case for democracy is not esthetic. George Will
democracy voters protect
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
democracy world lectures
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! Jeremy Clarkson
democracy care safe
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. Ian Mckellen
democracy cuba revolutionary
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. Hugo Chavez
democracy world way
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
democracy impossible injustice
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
democracy doe realms
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist. Howard Zinn
democracy citizens movement
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.
democracy speech democratization
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech. Gail Sheehy
democracy want problem
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. Frank Gehry
democracy poor ifs
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor? Ferdinand Marcos
democracy might corporations
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation. Fareed Zakaria
democracy fought freedom happy people rose ukrainian
I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory, Viktor Yushchenko
democracy culture ongoing
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. Jim Hightower
democracy needs flags
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. Jerrold Nadler
democracy expansion global states stood trade united
The United States has long stood for expansion of global trade and consolidating democracy.
democracy elitist group motions
Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?
democracy israel middle
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.