Quotes About Democracy

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

I think we need to change the system of elections in order to give less power to some sectors in Israeli society.

No Israeli leader is a king.

For me, sacrificing Israeli democracy is not something I can agree to.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

When the middle class constitutes only 20–30 percent of the population, it may side with antidemocratic forces because it fears the intentions of the large mass of poor people below it and the populist policies they may pursue.

The obligation to respect universal human rights has been voluntarily undertaken by most countries around the world, and rightly so. But all liberal democracies are built on top of states, whose jurisdiction is limited by their territorial reach. No state can undertake an unlimited obligation to protect people outside its jurisdiction, and whether the world would be better off if they all tried to do so is not clear.

When liberal democracies work well, state, law, and accountability all reinforce one another

In many cases, authoritarian states are capable of producing rates of economic growth unachievable in democratic societies.

We need to promote creedal national identities built around the foundational ideas of modern liberal democracy, and use public policies to deliberately assimilate newcomers to those identities. Liberal democracy has its own culture, which must be held in higher esteem than cultures rejecting democracy's values.

That an ethnically divided posttotalitarian state should not make an easy transition to liberal democracy seems obvious to many people in hindsight.