Democracy Quotes

• Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the practice of democracy in the United States, it would not be an error to point out that the ideas they championed did impact America's understanding, and subsequently its application, of democracy.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Music
  • Art
  • America

• The Capitol serves as a beacon of American liberty, freedom and democracy, and Rosa Parks served as the mother of the America we grew to be.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • American
  • America
  • Mother

• It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Proud

• China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.

  

  Chen Guangcheng
  • Law
  • Democracy
  • March

• 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

• The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Law
  • Democracy
  • Structure

• Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• I'm a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Democracy

• I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

  

  David Souter
  • American
  • Future
  • Democracy

• The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Popular
  • Boss

• The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Time
  • Democracy

• I believe this judgment should firmly convince any trade unionist that it is useless hoping for justice in the courts of this land. The only way we are going to obtain justice in my view is by fighting for democracy as our forefathers did in establishing the trade union and Labour movements.

  

  Arthur Scargill
  • Believe
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• The fossil fuel industry commands outsize sway over U.S. politics, markets, and democracy. I knew these companies were formidable, but when I served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, I got a close up view of how the industry disregards government safeguards.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Government
  • Politics

• The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • God
  • Believe
  • Morality

• There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  

  Arthur Jensen
  • America
  • Democracy
  • Nations

• The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Humanity
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Resonance

• I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.

  

  Marjorie Scardino
  • Time
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Democracy
  • Tyrants

• Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • People
  • Law
  • Powerful

• Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Time
  • Democracy

• Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

  

  Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • Political
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • People
  • Future
  • Revolution

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