Democracy Criticism Quotes

#1. Negative words spoken into our lives are like a vine, slowly creeping in, growing, expanding and entangling us until they're finally able to choke the life and dreams out.

Vonae Deyshawn

#2. What we see in a democracy governed by "representatives" is not a government "for the people" but an organized conflict of interests that only results in the setting up of unstable balances of power.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#3. Stop talking about the murders, and we won't know they're happening. And then we can all just live in a bubble that isn't reality.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

#4. I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.

Bill Wyman

#5. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

W.E.B. Du Bois

#6. There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.

Frederick Lenz

#7. Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster

#8. Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Adlai Stevenson I

#9. Even my basic, basic wardrobe is still pathetically colour coordinated. It just is. That is just me.

Trinny Woodall

#10. The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

#11. I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Narendra Modi

#12. Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

Karl Pilkington

#13. Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#14. He's the President - it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

Glenn Greenwald

#15. Nobody ever fails in Yoga ... It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#16. Chemistry is good for fun - it's like baseball. It has its role for small children, but I can't see an adult being concerned with it.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#17. Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

#18. Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Ani DiFranco

#19. The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Narendra Modi

#20. Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

Susan Sontag

#22. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#23. I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Liam Neeson

#24. The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

Antony Beevor

#25. Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible ...

Walter Stanley Mooneyham

#26. The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

David Ben-Gurion

#27. In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Narendra Modi

#28. Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.

Kangana Ranaut

#29. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Winston S. Churchill