Democracy Quotes - Page 42

If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?

He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably leads to Marxism" - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.