Quotes about democracy
democracy hungry said
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. Pete Domenici
democracy doe serious
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. Phillip E. Johnson
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
democracy east administration
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. Timothy Garton Ash
democracy definitions process
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 Sowell
democracy republic experts
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing. Thomas Piketty
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 firsts election
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. Rich Galen
democracy important minorities
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy. Robert Caro
democracy world
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. Ruhollah Khomeini
democracy revulsion happens
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again. Warren Buffett
democracy movement revolutionary
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. Vladimir Lenin
democracy minorities rich
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
democracy important censorship
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. Walter Cronkite
democracy world clown
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. Walid Jumblatt
democracy bricks nazi
We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks. Samuel Fuller
democracy flags world
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world. Virginia Foxx
democracy way should
In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say. Van Jones
democracy belonging
In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will. Vladimir Putin
democracy development internals
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
democracy world teach
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own. William Greider
democracy buying cabal
To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy. Stephen Colbert
democracy aristocracy periods
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. Thomas B. Macaulay
democracy principles majority
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. Thomas Jefferson
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
democracy politics honest
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken
democracy politics
The general will is always right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
democracy world lectures
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! Jeremy Clarkson
democracy needs flags
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. Jerrold Nadler
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
democracy internet free-speech
The case for democracy is not esthetic. George Will