Quotes about democracy
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. George Will
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
democracy might corporations
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. Fareed Zakaria
democracy leafs figs
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. Florence King
democracy should liberal-democracy
The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended. Flemming Rose
democracy way blind
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. Henry Miller
democracy east middle moving rest side supported syria towards wrong
Syria has been on the wrong side of history. Increasingly, the rest of the Middle East is moving towards democracy and freedom. On the other hand, Syria has always supported terror. David Kennedy
democracy district interest
It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.
democracy except form forms government time tried worst
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill
democracy key strategy throughout
Democracy is the key to our strategy throughout southeastern Europe,
democracy government people
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people Abraham Lincoln
democracy help needs steps taking
Democracy is taking its first steps in my country. It needs international help to grow.
democracy failed intelligence problems race raised
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
democracy man
Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell