Democracy Quotes

People who do not know what government is are not likely to know what democracy is either, for democracy is only what the soft inside of the oyster looks like.

Elmer Eric Schattschneider
Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

Abigail McCarthy

Immigration is everyone’s business: it is one of the most important national issues. The idea that it is too dangerous to be debated is a mockery of democracy. It is too important not to debate.

Geoffrey Blainey
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Richard Lugar
The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Arnold Mindell
- Democracy
- Goal
- Relate
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

Vandana Shiva
- War
- Democracy
- Violence
We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while the very rich have seen their tax burden lighten in ways not seen in three or four decades. It's a face of a country that we need to look at and understand that inequality is perhaps the greatest threat to our economic recovery and democracy, and in that context we must take action.

Katrina vanden Heuvel
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

Mahatma Gandhi