Democracy Quotes

• Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Fear
  • Democracy

• At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Democracy
  • Influence
  • Stand

• Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Support
  • Democracy

• Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Democracy
  • Corruption
  • Hypocrisy

• I love Turkey. I first traveled there in my early twenties, when I was obsessed by the 1915 Dardanelles campaign. I immediately liked the people - brave, stoical, generous, hospitable and patriotic, if a little inclined to conspiracy theories. I saw Turkey as a model for the region, a successful, Western-oriented Muslim democracy.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • People
  • Model
  • Brave

• Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • World
  • Long
  • History

• India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • World
  • Society
  • Religious

• I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Believe
  • Rest
  • Identity

• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Country
  • Heart
  • American

• Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Why
  • Democracy
  • Anchor

• What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Fall
  • Focus

• Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Wings
  • West

• The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True
  • Respect
  • Progress

• A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • American
  • Help

• We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Democracy

• We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Diversity

• We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • True
  • Hope

• The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • Democracy

• It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Fall
  • Democracy

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