Democracy Quotes
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
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Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
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But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
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We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
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It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
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Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs...
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
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Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.
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For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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They (Left Front government) have destroyed democratic institutions in the state. Parliamentary democracy becomes strong when there is an independent police, administration and judiciary.
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Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern his national comrades, but that, by the very greatness of the responsibility to be assumed, incompetents and weaklings are frightened of.
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We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
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What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.
