Democracy Quotes
Democracy Quote of the day
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.
People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.
The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.
The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.
Islamic state means a state based on justice and democracy and structured upon Islamic rules and laws.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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.