Democracy Quotes
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Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
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Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.
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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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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
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I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.
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I think I bring a perspective that local communities are what make this country great, and they are the laboratories of democracy.
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
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But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
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The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.
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The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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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.
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The Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we have ignored it. Mrs. Clinton has ignored it, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama. The idea that they're attacking us because of our culture is insane. We are now waging a war against them culturally. We're trying to impose democracy, women's rights, parliamentary systems on a people who don't want it. They're going to fight that.
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Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
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If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
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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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In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
