Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

Henry Giroux

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

Plato

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Martin Schulz

If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.

Lech Walesa

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

John Redwood

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

Larry Flynt

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

Nigel Rees

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Ronald Reagan

The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Anthony Kennedy

The judiciary as an institution is faced with a new threat. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation.

These frustrations have only gotten worse even as the rhetoric that 'democracy is coming' has increased.

Romano Prodi

This is a great day for democracy ... after the sadness of the last years,

Max Mosley

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

Despite the tense security situation in Iraq, it is paramount that all those willing to help establish democracy in Iraq be mindful of the right of the media to exercise their profession freely,

Any democracy worth its salt should be strong enough to endure the most controversial speech.

Tony Blair

an important staging post on the journey of the people of Iraq toward a new future, one in which democracy replaces dictatorship, in which freedom replaces repression, and in which all the people of Iraq can look forward to the possibility and the hope of an Iraq that genuinely guarantees a future for people from whatever part of Iraq they come.

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Jimmy Carter

Some states have passed abominable laws that are a disgrace to democracy,

Some people do not want democracy. (However) we are determined to have these primaries today.

Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed,

Democracy and freedom are what extend the scope of peace and security.

Corazon Aquino

This is really shocking. It's really a pity to lose our democracy again.

Condoleezza Rice

This is really democracy at work in Iraq, ... And given where they were just a few years ago, having lived in tyranny for all those decades, this is an extraordinary achievement.

The weekly statement, in which the Holocaust was cited, mainly focused on criticizing western democracy.

The United States went into Iraq because we wanted them to be a model for secular democracy. We wanted to dress them up and be our own boutique. And it is fair to say we have not accomplished that.

Robert Menzies

You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.