Democracy Quotes - Page 12

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.