Famous Quotes & Sayings

My revolution shows that the pyramid has overturned. Social democracy is at the top of my pyramid.

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Che Guevara

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Che Guevara

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

John Conyers

We've got a tremendous legacy to fulfill. You can't maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously. Rosa, you taught me that.

Condoleezza Rice

to lead the region in promoting democracy, as it has done in pursuit of peace.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Rory Stewart

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Warren Christopher

Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable.

Hugo Chavez

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

Hu Jintao

We must push for international configuration of multi-polarity and democracy in international relations,

Mwai Kibaki

I would like to congratulate all of you for participating peacefully in this historic occasion, ... This is a big step in the democracy of our nation.

will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .

We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommendations to the board.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Jose Barroso

We haven't ground to a halt but we have to respect the pace of democracy in each country. We hope that they will come up with a solution for stability in Germany because stability in Germany means stability for Europe too.

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

James Patterson

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy.

James Lovelock

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

John Oliver

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

John Dewey

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

John Dewey

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Joe Greene

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Lord Acton

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Lord Acton

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

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.

Henry Spencer

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Khalil Gibran

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.