Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Bond

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Edward Bellamy

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Albee

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Jon Stewart

Here in the U.S., we've made democracy into a science. A cold, impersonal science.

Russell Brand

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

Russell Brand

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Pierre Corneille

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Pete Domenici

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Phillip E. Johnson

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Robert Bork

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Rick Mercer

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.

Timothy Garton Ash

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.

Thomas Sowell

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 Piketty

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Saul Alinsky

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.

Rich Galen

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.

Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Warren Buffett

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Walid Jumblatt

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.

Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Virginia Foxx

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Vladimir Putin

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 cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

William Greider

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

Stephen Colbert

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.