Democracy Quotes
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
If there is a problem with democracy, the answer has to be more democracy.
Anibal Acevedo Vila
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.
Kim Young-ha -
I'm not a college graduate, but I don't know how George W.Bush could have truly believed that the flower of democracy was going to blossom in that part of the world, I mean Iraq - at least in part because the governments there are so tied to religion .
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell -
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
Narendra Modi
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The DMZ does not divide the last bastion of communism from a liberal democracy; it divides a radical nationalist state from a moderate nationalist one.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
Karl Liebknecht -
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt -
Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
R.J. Rushdoony -
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
Chen Shui-bian -
Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
George Bernard Shaw
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
Orhan Pamuk -
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai -
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
Ha-Joon Chang -
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta -
The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
Jack Keane
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
Brent Scowcroft -
We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield -
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White