Democracy Quotes

• Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

  

  David Baldacci
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Democracy
  • Socialism
  • God's Children

• High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • High
  • Support
  • Quality

• When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

  

  Allen Neuharth
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.

  

  DeForest Soaries
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Commitment

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

  

  Mark Pryor
  • Time
  • Justice
  • Courage

• We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • Up
  • Live
  • American

• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  

  Aristotle
  • Citizens
  • Injustice
  • Outrage

• Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Words
  • Freedom

• The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • People
  • Time
  • Bloom

• Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Country
  • Why
  • American

• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  

  William Blum
  • Life
  • Violence
  • inspirational

• I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Creativity

• I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry Hopkins says he's not and that he doesn't want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • World
  • Work
  • Country

• Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Mobocracy

• Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Victory

• Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

  

  Eli Pariser
  • Democracy

• You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Democracy
  • Comfortable
  • Static

• I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Political
  • Countries
  • USA

• Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Together
  • Hope

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