Democracy Quotes

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

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.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.