Democracy Quotes
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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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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
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Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not so many military dictatorships. Although we have a dictator in Honduras, as a result of a coup, now as a president, he is almost the only one I would say. But again led or managed, gestated by the U.S. government.
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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.
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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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I wrote the tunes. I was the driving force. The rest were quite happy just to go along with things. But it was more of a democracy then.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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Democracy begins as an act of imagination about people. For this reason democracy is a doctrine of social criticism.
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Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.
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Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.
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We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
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Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.
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I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.
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In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
