Democracy Quotes
-
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
-
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
-
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.
-
But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
-
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
-
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
-
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.
-
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
-
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
-
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
-
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.
-
We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
-
But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.
-
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
-
We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.
-
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.
-
We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises those dudes and women are making on the campaign trail, we gotta make sure those promises come to fruition and that doesn't happen by just voting and letting them get in and then falling back. Nah, you gotta be active. You gotta make your voice heard and be constantly involved in what's going on.
-
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
-
Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
-
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
-
Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.
-
What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...
-
Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.
-
Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
