Quotes About Democracy

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

The question now is how best to help the Iraqi people build a democratic and free Iraqi society that ensures respect for the rights of all Iraqis.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.