Democracy Quotes - Page 10

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was the one that explained American democracy to me. He said, ‘Our democracy is a people’s democracy and it can be as great as people can be, and it can be great… but we are also fallible human beings.’

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.