Democracy Quotes

• Elvis Presley had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Culture
  • Expression
  • Possibility

• 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.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Earth
  • Democracy
  • United

• It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Painful
  • Dictatorship
  • Authoritarianism

• 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

• America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • America
  • Democracy

• People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.

  

  Saul Alinsky
  • Freedom
  • Sacrifice
  • Interests

• The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Parties

• A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Country
  • Business
  • Democracy

• I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Democracy
  • Parties

• In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Band
  • Democracy

• Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

  

  George Will
  • Democracy
  • Accepting
  • Popularity

• Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Individual

• This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Together
  • Today

• It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.

  

  Nitin Sawhney
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Authority

• China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.

  

  Sun Yat-sen
  • Democracy
  • China
  • Operation

• In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Democracy
  • Ways
  • Decency

• If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

  

  Birgitta Jonsdottir
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Information

• There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?

  

  Tony Blair
  • Different
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

  

  Charles Frankel
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Committees

• Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

  

  Nigel Rees
  • Good
  • Democracy
  • Share

• We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Values
  • United States

• 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.

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • Character
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• Democracy ... is never won but always to be won.

  

  Hallie Flanagan
  • Democracy
  • Won

• Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Democracy
  • Cities
  • Laboratories

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