Democracy Quotes - Page 36

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

We have to remember that at the center of all of this is the hacking, is what the Russians did during our election process, their absolute targeting our democracy. And there's President Donald Trump laughing with them. Sergey Lavrov said they did not talk about the charges against Russia. And you still hear President Trump talking as if this may not be true, others may have hacked, as well.

Trump wants to be an autocrat, he does want to be a Vladimir Putin-style ruler. His chief strategic advisor, Steve Bannon, is a follower of Alexander Dugin. Dugin believes liberal democracy should be destroyed and it should be destroyed from the right, and an alliance of autocracy should form between the United States, Europe and Russia, in order to confront Islam.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.