Democracy Quotes - Page 67

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

The old fundamental principles must continue to apply, even in our changing society: Democracy knows neither master nor slave. Equal education opportunities for all, no matter where they come from and no matter who their parents are. Equal access as well when it comes to digitalization.

If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.

That's a really sad moment. When people in a democracy are afraid of having the conversation, because it might actually lead to a conclusion they don't like, as opposed to saying, let's have the conversation, and let's learn, and, you know, let's, let me try to persuade you, and if I'm not persuading you, then you try to persuade me. That's what we hope for.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.