Democracy Quotes

• 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

• As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

  

  Norman Granz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Chance
  • Students
  • Grow Up

• 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.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Government
  • Competition
  • Encourage

• When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.

  

  Nigel Farage
  • Country
  • Control
  • Democracy

• In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Person
  • Loyalty
  • Days

• Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and Republicans are all see-through. Now we votin for the lesser of two evils... Man, don't let 'em deceive you. This is an autocracy, not a democracy, But to call this a democracy without mock interest In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Police

• Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

  

  William Greider
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Teach

• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Country
  • Way
  • Should

• Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Democracy

• Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Leadership
  • American People

• Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Socialism
  • Completion
  • Negation

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

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Democracy

• The American system is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than a parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, you know, think they should not be elected president, I still think, well, you know, good for you I guess, you're out there promoting democracy and those crazy ideas of yours.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Ideas
  • American system
  • Parliamentary system

• 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

• What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Power
  • Democracy

• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  

  Mort Kondracke
  • Together
  • Interest
  • Rights

• Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

  

  Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • Education
  • Democracy

• There is no democracy without journalism.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Democracy
  • Journalism

• The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Environment
  • Democracy

• The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

  

  Ernest Istook
  • Democracy
  • Changes
  • Iraq

• An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Democracy
  • Educated
  • Editors

• The people who visit the Lincoln memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out ‘It’s a Small World After All,’ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • People
  • World
  • Men

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