Top 38 Democracy Is Not Perfect Quotes
#1. I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#2. Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in.
John F. Kennedy
#3. Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
John F. Kennedy
#5. Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people ...
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#6. Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. In this respect, as in many others, it's like democracy. Science by itself cannot advocate courses of human action, but it can certainly illuminate the possible consequences of alternative courses of action.
Carl Sagan
#7. Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#8. A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Edmund Burke
#9. Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
Peter Wilson
#10. Time is like this boat that you are on. You can't see who is steering it, but it is taking you to weird unknown and sometimes awful or terrifying places.
Lesley Choyce
#11. No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#12. I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
Ethel Waters
#14. There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#15. In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving
Dambisa Moyo
#16. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
George A. Sheehan
#17. I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
David Cameron
#18. Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
William Greider
#20. Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout.
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
#21. I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.
Honore De Balzac
#22. 'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.
Leymah Gbowee
#23. Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
Giacomo Casanova
#24. We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#25. It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
Tom Regan
#26. The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.
Warren Eyster
#27. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
#28. Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael Sandel
#29. If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#30. No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.
Jon Jones
#32. Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .
Vladimir Putin
#33. Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
Barack Obama
#34. Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ...
Andrew J. Robinson
#35. Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.
John F. Kennedy
#36. Gathered in the folding chairs of the meeting room, they made a diverse group with the drug-addicted, a perfect democracy of collapse.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#37. Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Aaron Brown
#38. Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
Stephen King
