Democracy Quotes
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Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
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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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Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.
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It's possible to go faster than folk are ready for; that's the key to democracy.
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It is time to investigate Russian interference in our democracy and to address it in a manner that will help restore Americans' trust in their government.
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We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.
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A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
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In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.
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They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg printing press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
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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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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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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
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When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.
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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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Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.
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Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
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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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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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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.
