Democracy Quotes
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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.
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
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A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
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Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.
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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
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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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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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In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.
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A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.
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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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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.
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In a democracy, if a government creates bad policies, it can be voted out of office. Competition in the private sector, however, can easily work to encourage phishing rather than stifle it.
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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.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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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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Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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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.
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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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In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.
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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
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Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
