Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

You might object that people were asked ‘What do you think?’ rather than ‘What do you feel?’, but this is a common misperception. Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality. If democracy were a matter of rational decision-making, there would be absolutely no reason to give all people equal voting rights – or perhaps any voting rights. There is ample evidence that some people are far more knowledgeable and rational than others, certainly when it comes to specific economic and political questions.

You need brains to be a great president, not to be a president.

You’re a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrens—and you’ll save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselves.” “You understand nothing.” “Meanwhile,” Sinjir says, really leaning into it now, “your opponent is a woman who wants to give democracy to the entirety of the galaxy. Freedom for all. Oppression for none.” “It’s naïve.” “It may be. But at this point, I’m going to side with her precious naïveté over your authoritarian bluster.

You're a part of the order if you're not against it.

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. Hotel service is embarrassing. Maids, waiters, bellhops, porters and so forth are the most embarrassing people in the world for they continually remind you of inequities which we accept as the proper thing. The sight of an ancient woman, gasping and wheezing as she drags a heavy pail of water down a hotel corridor to mop up the mess of some drunken overprivileged guest, is one that sickens and weighs upon the heart and withers it with shame for this world in which it is not only tolerated but regarded as proof positive that the wheels of Democracy are functioning as they should without interference from above or below. Nobody should have to clean up anybody else’s mess in this world. It is terribly bad for both parties, but probably worse for the one receiving the service.

You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!

Youths are the life blood of any nation.

Youths are our arrows to the future.

You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think.

You want to know how to preserve democracy? WE must listen and understand each other, respect and have empathy for one another.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change! Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

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

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

A democracy can't succeed without people's participation. 'MyGov' empowers the people of India to contribute towards Surajya.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.