Quotes About Democracy

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Democracy is the best revenge.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.