Democracy Quotes - Page 30

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

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.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

I certainly hoped that in the Eastern part of Germany, what was just beginning to be called the German Democratic Republic, you would develop a system of socialism with freedom and democracy.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.