Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phillip E. Johnson

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

Randall Robinson

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Peter Ustinov

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter L. Berger

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes

Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Phil Donahue

There is no democracy without dissent.

Pierre Trudeau

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

Phylicia Rashad

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Joseph Estrada

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship,

Kobe Bryant

Isn't the basis of a democracy to send somebody to Washington to bring something back for you? ... It isn't?

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Silvan Shalom

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

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,

Tommy Douglas

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

Tom Tancredo

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Ronald Reagan

The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets.

Romano Prodi

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Thurgood Marshall

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

Thucydides

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...

Robert A. Dahl

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

Robert A. Dahl

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Robert A. Heinlein

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Tim Allen

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

Lewis Mumford

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

Sidney Hook

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Shami Chakrabarti

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

Steven Pinker

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Richard Grossman

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.