Quotes About Democracy

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.

I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.

It's a philosophy that - 'We, the People' - it's about us, that if the Americans want to do something, they have the power to try to put leaders in place to carry out whatever their notions are.

All of my novels are democracies.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote.

There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.

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

You know, people should be able to vote free of any harassment, intimidation, obstacles, et cetera.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Israel cannot be a democracy if it occupies land of other people.

The Chinese Communist revolution, the US-supported wars against Communist guerrillas in Vietnam, Malaya, and the Philippines, the radical orientation of the postindependence regimes in Indonesia, India, and Egypt, and even the successful interventions in Guatemala and Iran convinced the Eisenhower administration that the Third World may not be ready for democracy

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win. Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

y en la democracia óptica de tales paisajes toda preferencia se vuelve caprichosa y hombre y roca terminan por asumir parentescos insospechados.

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.

We must not allow our elected officials -many beholden to unaccountable corporate elites- to bastardize and pulverize the precious word democracy as they fail to respect and act on genuine democratic ideals

But you have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.