Democracy Quotes - Page 44

There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the second. The only way to create a flourishing democracy is to find ways to reason together about the big questions, including hard questions about justice and the common good, to reason together about these questions so that we as citizens can decide how to shape the forces that govern our lives.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them to submit to his value judgments.

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general

All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.