Democracy Quotes

• Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.

  

  Elliot Paul
  • Birth
  • Voters
  • Tyrants

• It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.

  

  Naomi Mitchison
  • Democracy
  • Folk

• My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.

  

  Willie Herenton
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • motivation

• Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

  

  Wei Jingsheng
  • Party
  • Teaching
  • Written

• One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Democracy
  • Cars
  • Parked

• Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

  

  Rich Galen
  • Trouble
  • Election
  • Dictatorship

• If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Democracy

• Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • Religion
  • Authority
  • Appeals

• democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

  

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • People
  • Guarantees
  • Materialism

• How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Democracy
  • Nation
  • Disease

• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Democracy
  • Protect
  • Kashmir

• I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Study
  • Achieved
  • National Economy

• Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Despotism

• I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your democracy and do what is necessary to deal with our problems, I think you should be voted out.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Problems
  • Liberal icon
  • Conservative icon

• Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

  

  Arthur W. Page
  • Business
  • Democracy
  • Serve

• It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

  

  Silvan Shalom
  • Democracy
  • Middle East

• We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.

  

  Gaetano Mosca
  • Country
  • Liberty
  • Discussion

• I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

  

  Clare Short
  • Truth
  • Democracy
  • British

• Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Thinking
  • Terrorism
  • Hammers

• 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
  • Personal
  • Communist
  • Ambiguous

• In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • Democracy
  • Relation
  • Islam

• Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Democracy
  • Propaganda

• For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • May
  • Political
  • Realization

• A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Vote
  • Assault weapon

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