Top Democracy Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Democracy quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Nawal El Saadawi
Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.
- Nawal El Saadawi
Collection: Democracy
Image of Ralph Nader
Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
- Ralph Nader
Collection: Democracy
Image of Walter E. Williams
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
- Walter E. Williams
Collection: Democracy
Image of Benazir Bhutto
Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.
- Benazir Bhutto
Collection: Democracy
Image of Lisa Ling
We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.
- Lisa Ling
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mike Carey
No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.
- Mike Carey
Collection: Democracy
Image of Oswald Spengler
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
- Oswald Spengler
Collection: Democracy
Image of Gore Vidal
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mary Ritter Beard
Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
- Mary Ritter Beard
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Image of Fareed Zakaria
Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.
- Fareed Zakaria
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Image of Tariq Ali
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.
- Tariq Ali
Collection: Democracy
Image of Wendell Willkie
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
- Wendell Willkie
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Image of Karl Popper
The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise
- Karl Popper
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Image of Louis D. Brandeis
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Collection: Democracy
Image of Frances Moore Lappé
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
- Frances Moore Lappé
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Image of Brent Scowcroft
Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
- Brent Scowcroft
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Sayles
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
- John Sayles
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Oliver
Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.
- John Oliver
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Image of Olusegun Obasanjo
Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world
- Olusegun Obasanjo
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Image of James W. Loewen
We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.
- James W. Loewen
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Image of Stefan Molyneux
Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.
- Stefan Molyneux
Collection: Democracy
Image of Akbar Ganji
When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.
- Akbar Ganji
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Image of Randall Robinson
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.
- Randall Robinson
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Image of Hugo Chavez
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
- Hugo Chavez
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Image of Jan Struther
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.
- Jan Struther
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jeremy Clarkson
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!
- Jeremy Clarkson
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Image of Richard A. Clarke
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.
- Richard A. Clarke
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Image of C. V. Wedgwood
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
- C. V. Wedgwood
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Image of J. Stalin
American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.
- J. Stalin
Collection: Democracy
Image of Andrew Davidson
Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
- Andrew Davidson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Ramsey Clark
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
- Ramsey Clark
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jean Chretien
Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.
- Jean Chretien
Collection: Democracy
Image of Herbert Croly
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.
- Herbert Croly
Collection: Democracy
Image of Fernando Henrique Cardoso
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Collection: Democracy
Image of Ha-Joon Chang
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
- Ha-Joon Chang
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Image of Drew Carey
What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
- Drew Carey
Collection: Democracy
Image of Frank Bruni
We need to talk to voters in large enough numbers and we need to have conversations that are probing and sustained enough that we understand where they're coming from because nothing is nonsensical. You know, in a democracy, in an election, in an electorate there's a reason why things are happening and it's incumbent upon us to delve deep enough to get at those reasons.
- Frank Bruni
Collection: Democracy
Image of Doris "Granny D" Haddock
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.
- Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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Image of Bernard Crick
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
- Bernard Crick
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Image of Ruhollah Khomeini
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.
- Ruhollah Khomeini
Collection: Democracy
Image of Juan Cole
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
- Juan Cole
Collection: Democracy
Image of Ferdinand Marcos
Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
- Ferdinand Marcos
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Image of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Collection: Democracy
Image of Alan Blinder
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].
- Alan Blinder
Collection: Democracy
Image of Vilfredo Pareto
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
- Vilfredo Pareto
Collection: Democracy
Image of Wen Jiabao
Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
- Wen Jiabao
Collection: Democracy
Image of Margaret Halsey
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
- Margaret Halsey
Collection: Democracy
Image of Seymour Hersh
I would recommend any American who wants to understand where the government is going in the next four years of George W. Bush presidency to get a copy of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It's a road map, and it's pretty frightening testimony. Their definition of where democracy should go in the Middle East doesn't include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan; it only includes Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
- Seymour Hersh
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jeff Flake
Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.
- Jeff Flake
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Lanchester
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
- John Lanchester
Collection: Democracy