Quotes About Democracy

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

Não apenas se reduziu a quantidade de países e de pessoas praticando a democracia, como ocorreram muitos casos em que, pelo próprio voto, pela própria liberdade de expressão e organização, se escolhe o cativeiro.

Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said cheat and felt the teeth in it, the cleat, the cut, the eat.

Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

It's not governments I have an issue with—or not the concept of democratic government, anyway. But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

We exercised our democratic right to protest, and they ignored us.

Give the people the illusion of democracy, with a few elected councils that've been given power over local trivia, while you control anything that really matters directly through the economy.

Much as they feared democracy, they determined to shape it. Their motto became "Let us educate our new masters".