Quotes about demo
democracy outcomes next
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around. Randall Robinson
democracy vote oppression
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. Ralph Waldo Emerson
democracy groups citizenship
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence. Lewis Mumford
democracy world
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. Ruhollah Khomeini
demon mets basements
I've never met anyone who's left a comment on anything. It's just demons who live in basements. Robert Pattinson
democracy alive dictatorship
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death. Saul Alinsky
democracy bullets ballots
The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets. Ronald Reagan
democracy information entanglement
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. Romano Prodi
democracy politician ifs
If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public. Rory Stewart
democracy socialism
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy. Rosa Luxemburg
democracy prevention facts
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked. Susan Rice
democracy jazz structure
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
democrat knows
Everybody knows I'm a Democrat. Susan Estrich
democracy done international
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. Susan George
democracy faces contrast
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. Sidney Hook
democracy east middle
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. Silvan Shalom
democracy regulation standards
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. Shami Chakrabarti
democratic capitalism
Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. Serj Tankian
democracy foundation injustice
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. Thurgood Marshall
democracy empires convinced
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Thucydides
democracy chance depends
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves Robert A. Dahl
democracy justified economic
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.
democracy politics democrat
Democracy can survive anything except Democrats Robert A. Heinlein
democracy wonderful responsible
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
democracy socialism either-or
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system? Tim Allen
democratic civilised detention
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. Robert Bourassa
democracy way
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work. Tommy Douglas
democracy dictatorship implants
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. Tom Tancredo
democracy able birth
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. Vilfredo Pareto
demon priests notre-dame
by making himself a priest made himself a demon. Victor Hugo
democracy way majority
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Robert Bork
democracy complaining three
And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy. Rick Mercer
democracies-have government libertarian-party
Government is best which governs least Thomas Paine