Democracies Have Quotes - Page 5

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.

Acts of anti-Semitism in countries throughout the world, including some of the world's strongest democracies, have increased significantly in frequency and scope over the last several years.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.