Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
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They are not, and almost everybody accepts this, entitled to engage in seeking to disrupt the way our democracy operates by violence or threats of violence.
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Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.
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Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
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If you're going to have an exchange of ideas, the only thing you can do is to meet people face-to-face in front of a crowd who may think differently than you do. I mean, that's what democracy is about, isn't it?
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.
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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.
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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 do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning - of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.
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Willie WellsOne of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
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Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.
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If a company allows itself -- in its filtering capability -- to filter terms such as 'democracy' and 'religious freedom,' they will be in violation of U.S. law.
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In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
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A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.
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The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.
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Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
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Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.
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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
