Democracy Quotes - Page 66

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.

It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences against terrorism. Our shared values of freedom and democracy are shielded when like-minded nations work together to promote justice.

Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Lynch mobs are democracies.

If we blend efficiently democracy, demographic demand & demand, I believe that there will be a Vasco Da Gama on every street who will come searching for India.

A crime is a crime irrespective of the birth marks of the criminal.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.

Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

Fundamentalist Christianity is not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans who cherish democracy and the rights and protections guaranteed us by the U.S. constitution.

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.