Quotes About Democracy

during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

that during transitions to democracy, nations often undergo political convulsions that make them hard to govern, thus feeding nostalgia for their old authoritarian order.

Juro delante de Dios, juro delante de la Patria, juro delante de mi pueblo que sobre esta moribunda Constitución haré cumplir, impulsaré las transformaciones democráticas necesarias para que la República nueva tenga una Carta Magna adecuada a los nuevos tiempos. Lo juro.

Mao dice que el poder nace de la boca de un fusil, ¡y tiene razón! La democracia es una farsa burguesa —sigue Fidel, amenazante.

The contradiction is not between empire and nation; it is between empire and democracy. It is that contradiction that Asian American studies is especially poised to expose and explain, but the field must embrace empire as an analytic and overcome nationalist impulses to reproduce a typical "American" story.

We have freedom of the press; I think it's guaranteed in the Constitution or something."   The

For a zoned-out, stupefied populace, "democracy" will be nothing more than the right to shop, or to choose between Wendy's and Burger King, or to stare at CNN and think that this managed infotainment is actually the news. Corporate hegemony, the triumph of global democracy/consumerism based on an American model, is the collapse of American civilization. So a large-scale transformation is indeed going on, but it is one that makes triumph indistinguishable from disintegration.

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

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

Murray Bookchin spent a lifetime opposing the rapacious ethos of grow-or-die capitalism. The nine essays in this book represent the culmination of that labor: the theoretical underpinning for an egalitarian and directly democratic ecological society, with a practical approach for how to build it.

True agent or "representative" is always subject to that individual's orders, can be dismissed at any time and cannot act contrary to the interests or wishes of his principal. Clearly, the "representative" in a democracy can never fulfill such agency functions, the only ones consonant with a libertarian society.

For all governments—but especially democratic governments—must work hard at persuading their subjects that all of their deeds of oppression are really in their subjects' best interests

Yet, after all, we are not wedded to a "royal prerogative," and it is the American concept that sovereignty rests, not in government, but in the people.

My government will respect the will of the people.

A good education or democracy must start at home. Even the juridical department can still be filled with the corrupt minds.

Change can't be expected to happen without keeping the republic free and uncorrupted.

Democracy is the most overrated concept of our generation and is perhaps the most advertised export product under the made in US label. It is the easiest to tackle, but difficult to practice.

Do not confuse democracy, anarchy and monarchy. Because the bees are happy and democratically assigned to their posts despite having the queen as their sole leader.

For the Athenians, democracy started at home and they did not try to impose it on others as we do in our generation.

Having a democratic party doesn't mean that the head of that party is a true democrat at heart.

My political ideology is based on the value of freedom, rather than its price.

Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.

Socialism is the only political form that has democratic values.

The fact that you can impose democracy on other nations is already an undemocratic approach.