Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

H. L. Mencken

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The general will is always right.

Jeremy Clarkson

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

Ferdinand Marcos

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Fareed Zakaria

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Fran Lebowitz

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

George Pataki

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

George Montgomery

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

George Will

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

George Will

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.

Jim Hightower

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.

Jerrold Nadler

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.

Jean Chretien

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.

Christine Lagarde

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.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

For the past five years Thailand has been a democracy only in name.

Isaac Asimov

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

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.

Gore Vidal

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal

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.

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Christopher Lasch

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Christopher Hitchens

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

The fight for media freedom and democracy does not take place in one country,