Quotes About Democracy

If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Ich fürchte nicht die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Faschisten, sondern die Rückkehr der Faschisten in der Maske der Demokraten.

In a democratic age, only the behaviour of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. This is a modern version of Rousseau's doctrine: if it weren't for the authorities, the people would be good.

É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

A democracy—that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.

Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Both Jefferson and Adams were wary of priests in all forms, as they both knew theocracies are enemies of democracy. Jefferson pointed out that the Indians shared their wariness:

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.