Democracy Quotes

• Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Despotism

• As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning.

  

  James Comey
  • Strong
  • Democracy
  • Logic

• Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Experiment

• In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

  

  Plato
  • Design
  • Dwell
  • Freeman

• The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Democracy
  • Challenge

• There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Observing

• We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Christianity
  • India
  • Hindu

• I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Healthy
  • Educational

• Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

  

  George Osborne
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Democracy

• Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

  

  Maria Cantwell
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Terrorism
  • Governmental

• The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

  

  Joe Green
  • Time
  • Democracy

• The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Freedom
  • Ambitious
  • Arrogant

• Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Mind
  • Art
  • High

• The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

  

  John Acton
  • People
  • Power
  • Hand

• The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Evil
  • Democracy
  • Doctrine

• Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • People
  • Moving
  • Goal

• Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ideas
  • Democracy
  • Conflict

• The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Property
  • Test

• I don't personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

  

  Katharine Weymouth
  • Democracy

• If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• 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

• The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Model

• 'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'

  

  Charles Stross
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Assumption

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