Quotes about demo
democracy reform would-be
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis. Jean Chretien
democracy indifference intolerance
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. Christopher Lasch
democracies-have democracy elements
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them. Jeff Cooper
democracy internet free-speech
The case for democracy is not esthetic. George Will
democracy voters protect
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
democracy culture ongoing
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives. Jim Hightower
democracies-have justice democracy
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing. Jawaharlal Nehru
democracy corporations billionaire
Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Hillary Clinton
democracy economy free-market
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.
democracies-have democracy has-beens
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
democracies-have democracy driven
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
democracy corporations prosperity
Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.
democracy definitions should
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic. Herbert Croly
democratic domination aesthetics
Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics. Herbert Marcuse
democrat
We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat. Grover Norquist
democracy care safe
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV. Ian Mckellen
democracy cuba revolutionary
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. Hugo Chavez
democracy world way
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
democracy impossible injustice
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
democracy doe realms
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist. Howard Zinn
democracy citizens movement
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.
democracy politics scales
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal
democracy earth republic
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
democrats generally
Generally speaking, Democrats don't have a chance, and I don't think it will be any different this time.
democracy population want
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. George Bernard Shaw
democracy needs aristocracy
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
democrat
I started out as a Democrat. Gale Norton
democracy belief democratic
You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies. Christine Lagarde
democracy favors
It is the life of democracy to favor equality.
democracies-have people democracy
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. George Soros
democracy speech democratization
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech. Gail Sheehy
democracy want problem
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it. Frank Gehry
democracy poor ifs
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor? Ferdinand Marcos