Democracy Quotes

• Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • Reason
  • Imagination
  • Criticism

• The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Government
  • Mistake
  • Circumstances

• But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Democracy

• We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

  

  Helen Keller
  • People
  • Mean
  • Vote

• 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.

  

  Ed Droste
  • Music
  • Personality
  • Cult

• My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our people, the vitality of our democracy.

  

  Michel Temer
  • People
  • Character
  • Confidence

• Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent, and I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • Weird
  • United States
  • Donald Trump

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

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Democracy
  • Propaganda

• Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Understand
  • Public Men

• Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

  

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
  • Democracy
  • Rights
  • Product

• Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.

  

  Daniel Yankelovich
  • People
  • Country
  • Republican

• I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of democracy. After all, even within the West, there is no single standard and single model.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Numbers
  • Models

• I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.

  

  Wayne Hussey
  • Democracy
  • Driving

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

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Vote
  • Assault weapon

• 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.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Arnold Wesker
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Brotherhood

• 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.

  

  Calvin Cheng
  • Danger
  • Comfort
  • Educated

• And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

  

  Mike Lowry
  • Democracy
  • Needs
  • Ourselves

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

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Democracy

• Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Democracy
  • Europe
  • Jews

• Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Poverty
  • Rule
  • Behavior

• I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

  

  Mike Ross
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Side

• The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  

  William J. Murray
  • Subjects
  • Majority
  • Minorities

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