Quotes About Democracy

...without equality there can be no democracy.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.