Quotes About Democracy

1. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. 2. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

got news for you, honey," Margo said. "This is the United States you're talking about, not China or Russia. Our intelligence agencies don't undermine our elected officials or our democracy.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

And that's all you would have got under the American or British system of first-past-the-post,' said Lottie. 'It was proportional representation that inflated your gains.

What do the British care about Churchill's reputation; they have history books full of such men. Democracy is the fabric from which their society is woven.

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

under the influence of a political framework like our own. We

These exuberant proclamations of equalitarianism in sundown towns exemplify not only base hypocrisy but also what sociologists call herrenvolk democracy -- democracy for the master race. White Americans' verbal commitment to nondiscrimination forms one horn of what Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal famously called The American Dilemma. Blatant racism forms the other horn. In elite sundown suburbs, this dilemma underlies what we shall later term the paradox of exclusivity.

If textbooks recognized Lincoln's racism, students would learn that racism not only affects Ku Klux Klan extremists but has been normal throughout our history. And as they watched Lincoln struggle with himself to apply America's democratic principles across the color line, students would see how ideas can develop and a person can grow.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Is it not Abraham Lincoln who has cleared the title to our democracy? He made plain, once for all, that democratic government, associated as it is with all the mistakes and shortcomings of the common people, still remains the most valuable contribution America has made to the moral life of the world.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money. To sound nicer, we may call these "public opinion" and "disbursement of funds," but they are still votes and money.

There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money.

I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.