Quotes About Democracy

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

El imperativo democrático obliga a considerar artista a todo el que se presenta como tal, sin pararse a considerar si su producción convierte en universal una perspectiva particular, que era hasta ahora el severo canon que venía exigiéndose a toda obra artística.

no volver a la vetusta y agotada democracia de la alternancia, sino superar ese concepto y sustituirlo por otro más amplio, de Estado y de nación, en el que cupieran todas las regiones y clases sociales.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Como no se los consideraba aptos para la democracia, pensaban que era mejor que estuvieran sujetos a un poder dictatorial.

en junio se liquidó el partido socialista (el SPD), los nacionalistas abandonaron y los católicos se disolvieron, a cambio de un concordato con el Vaticano que se firmó el 8 de julio. Una ley de 14 de julio de 1933 proclamaba: «El NSDAP es el único partido político de Alemania». En cuatro meses, y con la tolerancia de los representantes de las clases elevadas de la sociedad alemana, se había liquidado la democracia. Instalado

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was.

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committee of wise men, whereas in truth judicial murders, foolhardy undertakings, wild choices, and above all foolish and disastrous wars are eminently the prerogatives of this form of government." Study on Sovereignty.

Ensuring that we have a well-informed public citizenry is important for a well-functioning democracy, and that in turn requires an active and diverse media.

America, which he never visited, he called "that monstrous prison of freedom . . . where the most repulsive of tyrants, the populace, holds vulgar sway" and "all men are equal—equal dolts

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

For the world to follow, we must do more than rattle our sabers and demand allegienace to our vision simply because we believe we are right. We must provide a reason for others to aspire to that vision. And that reason must come with more than the repetition of a bumper-sticker phrase about freedom and democracy. It must come with more than the restatement of failed policy. It must come with the wisdom to admit when we are wrong and resolve to change course and get it right.

Now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists..

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists. I