Quotes About Democracy

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

If you'd come to me in 2012, when the last presidential election was raging and we were cooking up ever more complicated ways to monetize Facebook data, and told me that Russian agents in the Kremlin's employ would be buying Facebook ads to subvert American democracy, I'd have asked where your tin-foil hat was.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

The project of translating liberal ideas of freedom into the institutional framework of liberal democracy involved suppressing such alternate ideas of liberty, of in effect rendering them Other. The increasingly powerful template of racial difference in the modern era provided an influential way of doing so.

Bugün demokrasimiz, ne katilleri bulunmam?? fidan gibi delikanl?lar?n kanl? kefenlerine sar?l?p unutturulabilir, ne de milyonluk kredi ya?malar?yla sat?n al?nabilir. Emekçi Türk halk?, örgüt deste?i ve demokratik bilinciyle sa?c? yönetimlerin bu kara dehlizini de geçecektir. Kimsenin ?üphesi olmas?n. Aslan?n s?rt?nda hükmetmeye özenenler de bir gün bu aslana yem olurlar.

The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think

What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real.

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Democracy requires that alternative visions of society be placed before the people, from which they can choose. But if all political parties have the same policies, namely those approved by capital, then the choice of the people becomes meaningless.

So-obviously-I am not against political parties; if I were, I would be against democracy itself. I am simply against the dictatorship of partisanship. To be more precise, I am against the excessive influence of parties in the system of political power. Where the political system-and thus the state itself-is too dominated by parties, or too dependent on them, the consequences are unfortunate.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in the post-totalitarian societies.

PÃ…â"¢irozenou nevýhodou demokracie je, že tÄ›m, kdo to s ní myslí poctivÄ›, nesmírnÄ› svazuje ruce, zatím co tÄ›m, kteÃ…â"¢í ji neberou vážnÄ›, umož?uje tém?? vÅ¡e.

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.

Centralized economic systems also erode the democratic base of politics. In a democracy, the economic agenda is the political agenda.