Top Democracy Quotes Collection - Page 9

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Image of Frank Herbert
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
- Frank Herbert
Collection: Democracy
Image of Reid Hoffman
Democracy is always frustrating.
- Reid Hoffman
Collection: Democracy
Image of Lord Acton
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
- Lord Acton
Collection: Democracy
Image of Alexander Hamilton
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.
- Alexander Hamilton
Collection: Democracy
Image of Bashar al-Assad
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
- Bashar al-Assad
Collection: Democracy
Image of Adolf Hitler
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Democracy
Image of Boris Johnson
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
- Boris Johnson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas Jefferson
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Paul Kagame
Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.
- Paul Kagame
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas Jefferson
The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Democracy
Image of John F. Kerry
We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Democracy
Image of Garry Kasparov
We see threats to liberal democracy coming from lots of directions. We have to create something new, a common response, because in so many places - the UK, France, Germany - ultranationalists and the far left threaten the free market and liberal democracy.
- Garry Kasparov
Collection: Democracy
Image of Lyndon B. Johnson
I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas Jefferson
If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Imran Khan
The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.
- Imran Khan
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas Jefferson
A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Democracy
Image of Fran Lebowitz
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Democracy
Image of Henry A. Kissinger
He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
- Henry A. Kissinger
Collection: Democracy
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Democracy
Image of Lawrence Lessig
The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.
- Lawrence Lessig
Collection: Democracy
Image of Christopher Lasch
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
- Christopher Lasch
Collection: Democracy
Image of Florence King
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
- Florence King
Collection: Democracy
Image of Aung San Suu Kyi
To have compromise you must first have dialog. That is the true path of democracy.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Collection: Democracy
Image of Coretta Scott King
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
- Coretta Scott King
Collection: Democracy
Image of Lewis H. Lapham
Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Collection: Democracy
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Democracy
Image of Kellyanne Conway
That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.
- Kellyanne Conway
Collection: Democracy
Image of Max Lerner
The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.
- Max Lerner
Collection: Democracy
Image of Aung San Suu Kyi
You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Collection: Democracy
Image of Rush Limbaugh
Democracies are not very stable.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Democracy
Image of Vladimir Lenin
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
- Vladimir Lenin
Collection: Democracy
Image of Theresa May
Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
- Theresa May
Collection: Democracy
Image of Karl Marx
All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy
- Karl Marx
Collection: Democracy
Image of John McCain
It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.
- John McCain
Collection: Democracy
Image of Neal A. Maxwell
There is no democracy of facts.
- Neal A. Maxwell
Collection: Democracy
Image of John McCain
The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.
- John McCain
Collection: Democracy
Image of H. L. Mencken
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Democracy
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Democracy
Image of Alejandro Castro Espin
I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.
- Alejandro Castro Espin
Collection: Democracy
Image of David McCullough
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
- David McCullough
Collection: Democracy
Image of H. L. Mencken
Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Democracy
Image of Nelson Mandela
A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Democracy
Image of H. L. Mencken
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of Norman Mailer
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Democracy
Image of Nelson Mandela
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Democracy