Democracy Quotes - Page 62

Day by day, it's worse for my people, especially for the women. And that's why, because of all of these main reasons, we say this is the mockery of democracy and mockery of War on Terror.

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

[The Democracy Party] did it to Dennis Kucinich.They certainly did it to Bernie, as we saw in the e-mails. They did it to Howard Dean, the "Dean Scream." Jesse Jackson, another kind of PR smear campaign.Meanwhile, the party keeps marching to the right and becomes more corporatist and elitist and imperialist.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

I want people to learn what democracy means.

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.