Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

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.

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

The anti-slavery party contend that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate Republic of sovereign States.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

The best revenge is democracy.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

The Commission on Presidential Debates is a corrupt stranglehold on our democracy.

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.