Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Donald Trump is an embarrassment to our nation. I mean, every single day you see something else that is an embarrassment to our nation. We can't allow that to happen, because it really is an affront on our democracy and we really do need to move forward.

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Drift is the demon of democracy.

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

Erasing national borders does not make people safer or more prosperous. It undermines democracy and trades away prosperity.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.

Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers on a case-by-case basis in terms of what they want to do and not do, but they don't necessarily have a lot of power in how that business operates. There's this presumption that sex workers are broken people, so how could they engage in something like workplace democracy? How could they even have demands?

Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.