Words matter. These are the best Democracy Quotes from famous people such as Cindy Sheehan, Mike Ferguson, Peter Camejo, Yogi Adityanath, George Will, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy … not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy.
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it’s for setting up a puppet government.
Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy – judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes – because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy – we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
What are we fighting the terrorists for if we ourselves do not even stand up for democracy – civil liberties and fundamental rights – which includes independence of the judiciary?
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point – if not a commodity – of political groups aiming to rise to power.
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness – it’s not an unusual thing – and maybe that’s not written about enough.
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don’t want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.
The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It’s where we learn to share; it’s where we learn to argue without offending. It’s just too critical to let go, as we’ve been so blithely doing.
Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud – they are afraid of democracy.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.
Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Here’s to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
Famine is about so much more than food: it is about a famine of education, democracy, health, transport, and so many other items. The food famine becomes a symptom of that vast failure.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy – the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.
It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.
And in a democracy, when we say we’re mad at what’s going on, what we need to be saying is we’re mad at ourselves.
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
