Quotes About Democracy

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.