Quotes About Democracy

Military and corporate structures are hierarchical, complex, and arcane. Both science and technology employ an esoteric language familiar mainly to the initiates, while military-speak is a language unto itself. Democracy, whose culture extols the common and shared, is alien to all of these practices and their modes of communication.

Moreover, the sheer size and complexity of imperial power and the expanded role of the military make it difficult to impose fiscal discipline and accountability. Corruption becomes endemic, not only abroad but at home. The most dangerous type of corruption for a democracy is measured not in monetary terms alone but in the kind of ruthless power relations it fosters in domestic politics.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

You said, 'Planning is something for communist countries; democracy and planning don't go together!' But, with all the errors we committed, our plans succeeded.

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

Rome was not simply the thuggish younger sibling of classical Greece, committed to engineering, military efficiency and absolutism, whereas the Greeks preferred intellectual inquiry, theatre and democracy.