Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Brand

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

Thomas Sowell

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

Thomas Piketty

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Thomas Piketty

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Rich Galen

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Robert M. Hutchins

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

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Voltaire

History is fables agreed upon.

Wilhelm Reich

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

Walter Gropius

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Vladimir Putin

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

Vladimir Putin

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

Winston Churchill

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Woodrow Wilson

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Yasser Arafat

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

Youssou N'Dour

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy,

Wen Jiabao

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Warren Buffett

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Werner Herzog

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

Walid Jumblatt

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.