Democracy Quotes - Page 53

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracy is good for world peace.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

There is a dualism inherent in democracy--opposing forces pushing against each other, always. Culture clashes. Different belief systems. All coming together to create this country. But this balance takes a great deal of energy.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.