Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

The truth is that our democracy is a work in progress. We are all its founders. We are all learning that we are linked and not ranked.

The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.