Democracy Quotes
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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The contribution of Communism to the nihilism of democratic despair has been to shear humanism off democracy, to reduce the concept of democracy to crass materialism, to interpret life in terms of bread alone. The Nazis, as anti-humanistic as the Communists, have elevated the Communist Have-Not doctrine into a war cry for the Have-Not states.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
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Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
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Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
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We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
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Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
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The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.
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Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
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Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country
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Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats or oligarchs, as opposed to being citizens.
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In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
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The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government.
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Labor is marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
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'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'
