Quotes About Democracy

The major downside of democracy is that even the least critical minds will never think they are wrong.

The simplest definition of democracy is that you are a true humanist at heart. Which is contrary to exploitative ideologies.

The word VOTE stands for Voice Of The Elector. Therefore, vote to let your point of view speak out for you.

The word "democracy" is easier said than practised and that is the main factor which can turn our respected world leaders into manipulators.

There are more conspirators in a democratic state than in a principality, and when they go unchecked, turn their gaze to anarchism.

There is no benefit of claiming to be a democratic state while you are not willing to practice the true virtues of democracy.

There is no doubt that the true values of democracy lies in a socialistic system.

Today, governments are ruining democracy by confusing it with gender equality, aiming for more balance rather than giving opportunity to those who have the ability and truly deserve it.

True democracy means responding to the wishes and will of the people. It has nothing to do with the populists running for office.

We are all seeking for the truest form of democracy; as that will lead us to live in freedom.

We ought to practice democracy in the correct manner, but not to impose it to those who are still adapting to the correct leadership within their states.

What kind of democracy is in the United States if there are only two dominant political parties, isn't that a dictatorial edict of political affairs?

As the founders often cautioned, a self-governing republic doesn't have a governing class. Part of America's current predicament is that it now has a permanent, unelected one, unanswerable to the people. Absolutism—soft perhaps, but absolutism nonetheless—has replaced a democratic republic.

We all learn about how the Constitution's framers accomplished that delicate balance through the three branches of government and the separation of their powers: democratically elected representatives frame laws to do the voters' will, which the elected president executes, unless the Supreme Court deems them unconstitutional.

There is nothing of democratic self-government in the "command" of this newly hatched, elitist administrative state, of course.

We often hear the Church referred to as a democracy, when in reality, instead of being a church where the body is governed by officers elected by the members, the Church is a theocracy, where God directs his church through representatives chosen by him.

our confidence is not in the solidity of Western culture or the basic goodness of modern democracy. Our confidence is in Jesus and him alone.

These questions need to be worked out in other contexts, but it would be unwise to leave the central chapters of Revelation with the impression that bestial regimes are only and always non-democratic tyrannies. They may be closer to home than we like to think. Perhaps this is why the western church, so comfortable now within its present world, is not persecuted.

In Britain, more people now vote on "reality TV" shows (voting, for instance, to eject a contestant from a "Big Brother" house) than vote in elections.

In the United States, whoever you vote for, you still get a millionaire.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this that we may think what we like and say what we think.

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.