Democracy Quotes - Page 24

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

American democracy is really under attack here [Clinton campaign that was hacked]. And the question is how are we and in particular and how are Democrats going to respond to this. We have to understand this is really, really quite extraordinary. And it would seem to me that the FBI shouldn't be getting rolled by the House Republicans and that's what happened here.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, but basically to label it as anarchy and to repress it with the most violent, in the most violent means possible. I mean, that's essentially an element of neofascism. That's not about democracy.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.