Quotes about democracy
democracy information entanglement
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. Romano Prodi
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 faces contrast
In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself. Sidney Hook
democracy east middle
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East. Silvan Shalom
democracy regulation standards
In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary. Shami Chakrabarti
democracy foundation injustice
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy. Thurgood Marshall
democracy empires convinced
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Thucydides
democracy chance depends
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves Robert A. Dahl
democracy justified economic
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.
democracy politics democrat
Democracy can survive anything except Democrats Robert A. Heinlein
democracy wonderful responsible
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'.
democracy socialism either-or
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? Tim Allen
democracy way
The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work. Tommy Douglas
democracy dictatorship implants
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. Tom Tancredo
democracy able birth
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth. Vilfredo Pareto
democracy way majority
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Robert Bork
democracy complaining three
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. Rick Mercer
democracy east administration
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. Timothy Garton Ash
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 way anarchy
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. Steven Pinker
democracy done feels
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. Richard Grossman
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 problem findings
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. Reinhold Niebuhr