Democracy Quotes - Page 14

The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

All of my novels are democracies.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.