Democracy Quotes - Page 18

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone!

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs