Democracy Quotes - Page 16

The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

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

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship - it's a revolutionary democracy.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.