Democracy Quotes
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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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Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.
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It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music. It's more about can I dress this person up? Are they going to look pretty? I feel like the cult of personality is back, for sure.
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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
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Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.
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A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
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Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.
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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
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Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning anymore. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Today, more than ever, sovereignty also needs democracy.
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In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
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We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
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Democracy is more than a ballot box.
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
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The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.
