Quotes about democracy
democracy plutocracy
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy. Ralph Nader
democracy flags lines
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'
democracy world plans
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy. Neil deGrasse Tyson
democracy denial moments
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.
democracy fundamentals world
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
democracy sides film
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem. John Sayles
democracy cosmetics
The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy. John Pilger
democracy world taiwan
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. Nick Lampson
democracy demand suspension
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them. Margaret Halsey
democracy want what-you-want
Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do. Ray Bradbury
democracy secrecy diminish
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy. Ramsey Clark
democracy faults constitution
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
democracy middle-east realistic
We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us. Rand Paul
democracy turns ifs
If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
democracy mediocrity tendencies
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. James F. Cooper
democracy unions victim
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. James Connolly
democracy tragedy modern
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. Jacques Maritain
democracy alternatives reform
He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved. Henry A. Kissinger
democracy individual-power social
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing. Henry Giroux
democracy doe idlers
Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish. Plato
democracy ifs candidates
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy. Martin Schulz
democracy imperialism building
Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism. Lech Walesa
democracy constitution destruction
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. John Redwood
democracy speech culture
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted. Larry Flynt
democracy permanent
In a democracy, power is not permanent. Lalu Prasad Yadav
democracy matter violence
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
democracy degenerates majority
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery. Friedrich August von Hayek
democracy march static
Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march. Franklin D. Roosevelt
democracy flags mob-rule
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.
democracy share
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody. Nigel Rees
democracy austerity wells
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
democracy freedom heap history leave left march stifle
The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people. Ronald Reagan
democracy faced judiciary learn
The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. Anthony Kennedy