Quotes About Democracy

La idea de una revolución pacífica en democracia y con plena libertad era un contrasentido.

El tema de la noche fue la intervención de la CIA en Latinoamérica, que contribuyó a derrocar democracias y reemplazarlas por el tipo de gobierno totalitario que ningún norteamericano toleraría.

los pueblos eligen el gobierno que merecen.

The technique of "disappearing" ideological enemies, which several Latin American dictatorships were so strongly committed to during the seventies and eighties, had been practiced in Chile nearly a century earlier. None of which takes away from the fact that our democracy was the most solid, and the oldest, on the continent.

Vamos a acabar con los privilegios de la oligarquía, la Iglesia, los latifundistas y el resto de los explotadores del pueblo. Debemos defender la democracia, amigos; pero recuerden que no todo ha de ser política. Sin ciencia, industria y técnica no hay progreso posible, y sin música y arte no hay alma

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.

Elections are zero-sum games. That means that there's always one winner and a lot of losers. If you just get one more vote than the other person, you win that election.

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

The painful truth may be that Zimbabwe, the youngest of Africa's former colonies, has simply followed where the continent has led, treading the well-worn path beaten out of the lie that taking power from the colonialists and delivering democracy to the people are one and the same.

I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave it special protection, because I had an external partner through the export processing zone.

The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.

All authority belongs to the people.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

The world must be made safe for democracy.