Famous Quotes & Sayings

These frustrations have only gotten worse even as the rhetoric that 'democracy is coming' has increased.

Romano Prodi

This is a great day for democracy ... after the sadness of the last years,

Max Mosley

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

Nina Hagen

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

John Oliver

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Dewey

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

John Dewey

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Joe Greene

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Louis Susman

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

Lewis H. Lapham

Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Leon Wieseltier

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,

Karen Armstrong

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Katharine Weymouth

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Leonard Cohen

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Lord Acton

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Lord Acton

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Louis D. Brandeis

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

Lord Hailsham

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Malachy McCourt

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

Fred Thompson

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up

Juan Cole

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Joyce Cary

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Oswald Spengler

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Paul Kagame

Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.