Top 100 Democracy In Quotes
#1. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.
Dick Morris
#2. Rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
Lester Bangs
#3. It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Jack Schwartz
#4. It is important that democracy in Lebanon is protected and that Hezbollah will not be supported by outside forces like Syria and Iran.
Ehud Olmert
#5. The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida
#6. If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?
Vladimir Lenin
#7. The American Jews are liberal en masse because the 'Bill Of Rights' guarantees for them (through their evolutionist Justices) to keep the majority and their 'Democracy' in check.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#8. We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
John Sweeney
#9. Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.
Harriet Martineau
#10. It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
John F. Kerry
#11. There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.
Wynton Marsalis
#12. So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.
Mario Monti
#13. Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
Edward Abbey
#14. If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.
Lindsey Graham
#15. Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
Max Lerner
#16. The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.
Ernest Istook
#18. Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
Barney Frank
#19. My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Madeleine Albright
#20. Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.
Plutarch
#21. Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
Chris Chocola
#22. Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Ronald Reagan
#23. We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
Najib Razak
#24. Since Brazil became a democracy in 1975 over 1700 Activists and small Farmers have been murdered in Brazil alone over land reforms and the rainforest !
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#25. Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.
Annette Lu
#26. In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.
Kim Young-ha
#27. Democracy in China is maybe like a democracy that is separated, distributed. But in the West, maybe it's something you go to the supermarket to buy.
Wu Shanzhuan
#28. For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy.
Osho
#29. One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.
Jacques Chirac
#30. Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.
Paul Stanley
#31. The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
Warren Christopher
#32. We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.
Edward Pearson Pressey
#33. Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
Steve King
#34. On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.
David Suzuki
#35. It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.
Robert Downey Jr.
#36. As the familiar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis goes, We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Jaron Lanier
#37. It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.
Juan Manuel Santos
#38. America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.
Condoleezza Rice
#39. Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
Elizabeth Bishop
#40. And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.
Ahmed Chalabi
#41. A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
John Jay Hooker
#42. Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Dave Barry
#43. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#44. And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.
William J. Clinton
#45. With growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#46. Democracy in a country where the public is uneducated is no different from having a dictatorship or an elected king.
Zulfu Livaneli
#47. Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#48. A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.
Kay Granger
#49. America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?
Patricia Cornwell
#50. There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.
Nelson Mandela
#51. If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
Kevin O'Leary
#52. I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
Simon Winchester
#53. Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
Fisher Ames
#54. The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.
Ratan Tata
#55. Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
Ahmed Zewail
#56. I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#57. I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#58. Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
Ron Kind
#59. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Jack Schwartz
#60. The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
Ludwig Von Mises
#61. There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#62. Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#63. Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy
Gore Vidal
#64. I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
Emir Kusturica
#65. Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
Christopher Lasch
#66. They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo.
Ken Follett
#68. [If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.
Jon Stewart
#69. The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.
John B. Anderson
#70. American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
Os Guinness
#71. The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources ... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement ... They are the wellsprings of a free society.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#72. A Western-style democracy in Afghanistan is a dream. I don't see that as a reality anytime soon. But I think some form of representative political process is not that far-fetched.
Khaled Hosseini
#73. Without democracy in our homes, we will never have it in the world.
Roseanne Barr
#74. While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
Mark Kennedy
#75. The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.
Orson Scott Card
#76. I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Kurt Vonnegut
#77. My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
Natan Sharansky
#78. The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
Noam Chomsky
#79. The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.
Shirin Ebadi
#80. Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
Richard Ebeling
#81. Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Archibald MacLeish
#82. Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
George Montgomery
#83. I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#84. In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.
Ronald Reagan
#85. Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
#87. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.
Scott McClellan
#88. We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times
Joachim Gauck
#89. The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
Peter Camejo
#90. Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.
Robert D. Kaplan
#91. Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude
Aung San
#92. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.
Shimon Peres
#93. A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
Timothy Garton Ash
#94. I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists
there's no room for democracy in making film.
D. A. Pennebaker
#95. ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.
Martin O'Malley
#96. Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse .
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#97. Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.
Greg Thomas
#98. The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.
Vladimir Putin
#99. There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
Bobby Ghosh
#100. I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
Richard Attenborough
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