Democracy Quotes
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The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
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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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Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.
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The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
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I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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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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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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The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.
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'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
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From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.
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There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
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I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
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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.
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I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.
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There's great participation, there's great enthusiasm and there's a great calm in the country ... ... It will strengthen our democracy, and that will allow the country to continue forward.
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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.
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And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?
