Democracy Quotes - Page 25

Democracy must be our answer to terrorism

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.