Democracy Quotes
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram -
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Maureen Dowd -
If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.
Maysoon Zayid -
Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
George Hamilton -
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme -
When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.
Margaret Thatcher
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
Omar Bongo -
Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Debbie Stabenow -
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
Max Lerner -
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 -
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
Aristotle
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Larry Flynt -
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
Youssou N'Dour -
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
Natan Sharansky
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt -
The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.
Kofi Annan -
Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
Fiona Shaw -
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
Pat Buchanan