Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.
Our nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.
Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.
Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
I'm a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
The right to religious freedom and the right to vote are both fundamental to our democracy.
It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.