Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Karl Marx

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Russian public opinion, when it looks at the United States policy in Azerbaijan, can not ignore the fact that the United States has a desire not in favor of democracy but in favor of profits and geopolitical domination.

Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Neal A. Maxwell

There is no democracy of facts.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Nelson Mandela

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

Nelson Mandela

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Noam Chomsky

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Noam Chomsky

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Noam Chomsky

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Noam Chomsky

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Noam Chomsky

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?

Noam Chomsky

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

John Ashcroft

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Margaret Atwood

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Margaret Thatcher

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.