Democracy Quotes - Page 4

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.