Democracy Quotes - Page 26

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.