Quotes About Democracy

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Como nos recuerda Savater, la democracia no es un régimen para estar quieto. Y la nuestra se encuentra tan descompuesta que urge estar atentos, vigilantes, prestos para intervenir y corregir y echar del puesto a quien te ha desilusionado

Los idiotas mandan porque otros idiotas los eligen. Los idiotas mandan porque logran erigirse en una especie de diosecillos que siempre tienen la razón, dado que los apoya el pueblo y el pueblo nunca se equivoca.

Heiner Müller zeroed in on this contradiction by noting ascerbically that the main economic activity of the Eastern regimes was always the production of state enemies (in other words, the system produced vast numbers of literate, well-educated workers who could not fail to notice the yawning gap between the ideal of a people's democracy and the despotism of the one-party state).

Our ways of seeing are democratic. Unfortunately, they are not bureaucratic. Except in rare circumstances, I no longer believe that it is possible to be both, because when it becomes bureaucratic the struggle is not about pedagogy, it's about power. About who controls the activities that occur in schools. About who controls who participates in American society. About who controls the power base of the twenty-first century.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

The promise to leave the European Union, end the supremacy of EU law and take back control of our democracy. With my leadership, it will be delivered.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.