Quotes About Democracy

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

In the age of term limits, unfortunately, you see power not in the people who are elected by the people, but instead more in the hands of the people who are working behind the scenes.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.