Quotes About Democracy

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

He cannot win," wrote Friedkin, "not this year, anyway. But his strength is accelerating and sympathy for him is yet another matter. I wonder if he is paving the way for another even-worse candidate ten, twenty or thirty years down the road. Considering the widespread support for this man, I am after one close look frankly terrified for the future of American democracy.

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

For the "new democracies" in Eastern Europe, meeting this standard "would be commensurate with their passage from totalitarianism to democratic states." Eizenstat is a senior US government official and a prominent supporter of Israel. Yet, judging by the respective claims of Native Americans and Palestinians, neither the US nor Israel has yet made the transition.85

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

los saberes humanísticos, la cultura y la enseñanza constituyen el líquido amniótico ideal en el que las ideas de democracia, libertad, justicia, laicidad, igualdad, derecho a la crítica, tolerancia, solidaridad, bien común, pueden experimentar un vigoroso desarrollo.

Não nos damos conta, de fato, de que a literatura e os saberes humanísticos, a cultura e a educação constituem o líquido amniótico ideal no qual podem se desenvolver vigorosamente as ideias de democracia, liberdade, justiça, laicidade, igualdade, direito à crítica, tolerância, solidariedade e bem comum.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Democracy functions in Protestant nations. It barely functions in Catholic nations. It doesn't function at all in Orthodox nations.

O kraju ?wiadcz? jego Zwierz?ta. Stosunek do Zwierz?t. Je?eli ludzie zachowuj? si? bestialsko wobec Zwierz?t, nie pomo?e im ?adna demokracja ani w ogóle nic.

Its Animals show the truth about a country," I said. "Its attitude toward Animals. If people behave brutally toward Animals, no form of democracy is ever going to help them, in fact nothing will at all.

Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet

Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

him took place all over the country. And—for better or worse—his conviction that Chinese needed a protracted period of firm, authoritarian political tutelage before democracy could be risked has become the template for reform ever since. As