Democracy Quotes - Page 20

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.