Quotes About Democracy

exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.

It's our job to look at the issues and elect people. Once we've done that, that's our part over with. It's not up to us to run the country.

Demokratien pflegen ihre Feinde, sie liquidieren ihre Gegner.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

contemporaine. Aristote plaide déjà pour un régime républicain où l'autorité s'exerce par la loi et non par la force. Athènes, modèle premier de la démocratie, conjure le recours à la violence. Et Confucius, dans la Chine ancienne, plaide pour la loi liant harmonieusement et pacifiquement l'homme à la nature. C'est à partir de la Renaissance qu'en Occident analyses et énergies convergent pour juguler le

The task therefore was not only to denounce this supposed kinship between classical German culture and National Socialism, and show what this supposed 'Germanity' had falsified, but also to emphasize the extent to which the classical German heritage was indissociable from those values now trampled on by the Nazis: a certain belief in freedom, justice and democracy.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

When this faculty of imagination is not kept alive, there is no more story to be told, and institutions begin to stiffen and become dogmatic. Their objectifications then take on the quality of absolutes. When imagination becomes stuck or frozen, creation and poetry are no longer possible, and this also closes the door to democratic processes as well the arts and sciences. If people lack imagination, how can they find solutions to the challenges of life?

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

In 1936, when men such as Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh openly admired Hitler, it was still safe to name the style of government to which these words pointed. Human problems, Buchman told his little group that night in Lenox, require "a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy." Just as good, said Buchman, would be a "God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.

Thomas Jefferson

La pasión puede parecer en ocasiones difícil de alcanzar: una torre en llamas distante, accesible solo a genios y a tocados de la gracia divina. La curiosidad, en cambio, es una entidad más moderada y pacífica, más hospitalaria y más democrática.

the rich and powerful are always taken care of. This corruption is turning government into a tool of those who have already gathered wealth and influence. This corruption is hollowing out America's middle class and tearing down our democracy. In

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

we also need to understand how and why our country has gone so thoroughly wrong. We need a plan to put us back on track—and then we need to get to work and make it happen. We need to live our values, to be the kind of nation that invests in opportunity, not just for some of us, but for all of us. We need to take our democracy back from those who would pervert it for their own benefit. We need to build the America of our best dreams.

On July 25, 1943, the day Mussolini fell, I was with Luce trying to shake off his objection to a long essay I had written for Fortune's philosophy series on the vision of democracy according to Emerson, Melville, Whitman.

But Israel's might is useless in a struggle that is not about winning territory but securing democratic rights for all. This is why opposition to the grim realities must be coupled with a battle of ideas in which walls and checkpoints provide no defense. Furthermore, it is why the struggle must take a moral form that offers Israel no excuses for its oppressive measures.

Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.

It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue. It is the end of dialogue.

It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue

Here's the one thing I now know for sure after this very long trip: Evidence really is an ethical issue, the most important ethical issue in a modern democracy. If you want justice, you must work for truth. And if you want to work for truth, you must do a little more than wish for justice.