Quotes About Democracy

This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

If we don't have a responsive democracy, all the debates about charter schools, and fracking, and high-stakes testing, and the militarization of police forces - all of which are issues I care about – they aren't real debates.

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

The clear tendency of modern wars is to become ever more closely identified with broad, popular, moral aspirations: freedom, self-determination of peoples, democracy, rights, and justice.

is a phenomenon of failed democracies, and its novelty was that, instead of simply clamping silence upon citizens as classical tyranny had done since earliest times, it found a technique to channel their passions into the construction of an obligatory domestic unity around projects of internal cleansing and external expansion.

The principal objection to succumbing to the temptation to call Islamic fundamentalist movements like al-Qaeda and the Taliban fascist is that they are not reactions against a malfunctioning democracy.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Vid en första anblick framstår genetik och jämlikhet som varandras motsatser, eftersom genetiken strider mot den princip som man finner i den andra meningen i USA:s självständighetsdeklaration från 1776, nämligen att alla människor är skapade lika. ... Men "lika möjligheter" är återigen inte samma sak som identiska sådana. ... Demokratins själva essens är att alla ska behandlas rättvist trots att de är olika.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

America's libraries are the fruits of a great democracy. They exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exists because we believe that information an knowledge are not the exclusive domain of a certain type or class of person but rather the province of all who seek to learn. A democratic society holds these institutions in high regard.

The combatants, 'monocled and bespatted', mounted a horse-drawn carriage and rode in triumph down Constitution Hill, the Mall and Trafalgar Square. Speaking as imperial grand prior of the League, Hamilton reportedly told journalists that the organisation 'views with unabashed antipathy all forms of democracy, especially the referendum'. 'We oppose anything that is common, whether it be consultation of the common people or the Common Market.

As Peregrine Worsthorne argued in the Sunday Telegraph, British democracy did not require governments always to do what the people wanted; it simply required them to face the judgement of the people for the decisions they had made. This, he argued, not only promoted more considered government – for ministers would take the blame for failed policies at an election, however popular they might have been at the time; it also protected democracy itself from opprobrium.

In 1939, Keynes had doubted whether 'capitalistic democracy' would ever be willing to make the 'grand experiment' which would prove his theory. In war the experiment was made, and the theory worked. The economy was run at full capacity with only very moderate inflation.

the neoliberal system therefore has an important and necessary by product ad politicized citizenry marked by apathy and cynicism. If electoral democracy affects little of social life it is irrational to devote much attention to it.

The profit motive, commercialism, public relations, marketing, and advertising—all defining features of contemporary corporate capitalism—are foundational to any assessment of how the Internet has developed and is likely to develop. Any attempt to make sense of democracy divorced from its relationship to capitalism is dubious.

Yale political scientist Robert Dahl asked. "And if citizens cannot be political equals, how is democracy to exist?

because mainstream scholarship simply accepted capitalism as the same as democracy and the only possible economic system, scholarship that emphasized political economy was left to those who were by definition radicals, which increased its likelihood of being stigmatized as "ideological" and "unscientific.

It is not just incompetence or banality that should concern us. Governments, even democratic ones, are capable of acting unconscionably and undermining the very freedoms that are necessary for self-government to be effective. When they grow secretive, the likelihood that they are representing powerful interests grows.

we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.

el fracaso del marxismo no está en que haya sido mal aplicado a la realidad, sino a sus propias bases epistemológicas y gnoseológicas, por decirlo de algún modo, y al hecho de que Marx jamás pudo imaginar el potencial económico, tecnológico y democrático que encerraba el capitalismo, el mercado, la libertad.

A la catedral entró una horda de encapuchados. ¿Cómo intervienes? Una cosa son las manifestaciones pacíficas, propias de la democracia, pero harina de otro costal son las hordas de vándalos.

sin el agobio del tiempo, pues tiempo era lo que sobraba, que es acaso lo que distingue a una democracia, el tiempo sobrante, la plusvalía de tiempo, tiempo para leer y tiempo para pensar