Quotes about democracy
democracy levels bars
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy Recep Tayyip Erdogan
democracy east achieve
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East
democracy debate method
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously
democracy election parliament
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
democracy doe politician
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. Juan Cole
democracy poet dies
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. Joyce Cary
democracy intellect destroyed
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. Oswald Spengler
democracy monarchy rwanda
Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy. Paul Kagame
democracy succeed where-we-come
Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. Scott Pelley
democracy journalism
There is no democracy without journalism.
democracy needs deeds
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. Lee H. Hamilton
democracy
Democracy fascinates me.
democracy definitions minorities
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed Lee Harvey Oswald
democracy politician ifs
If democracy is to be rebuilt … it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public. Rory Stewart
democracy socialism
There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy. Rosa Luxemburg
democracy prevention facts
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked. Susan Rice
democracy jazz structure
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
democracy done international
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. Susan George
democracy defense electorate
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate. Thomas Jefferson
democracy minorities majority
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
democracy vigilance eternal-vigilance
Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.
democracy foundation educated
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
democracy electorate depends
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
democracy function active
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. Rick Perry
democracy world financial
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. Stephane Hessel
democracy ambitious arrogant
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism. Vaclav Klaus
democracy ambitious global-warming
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
democracy sacred constitution
The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
democracy suggestions libertarian
Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves. Stefan Molyneux
democracy teach university
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. Stanley Fish
democracy buying cabal
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. Stephen Colbert
democracy aristocracy periods
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. Thomas B. Macaulay
democracy principles majority
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.