Best 3411 quotes in «democracy quotes» category

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

Democracy if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

Democracy is always frustrating.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most; we need an affirmative agenda.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.