Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

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 press is one of the pillars of democracy.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

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

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

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.

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.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

A legitimate democracy cannot act against a terror organization because it is using civilians as a human shield, and therefore it should absorb attacks on its own civilians.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.