Democracy Quotes

We're not a democracy.
Gore Vidal

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Sometimes, Dangerous, Avoid

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
Wynton Marsalis

Corruption, Eyes, Idea

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
Edward Kennedy

Integrity, Deceit, Poison

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
Dalton Trumbo

Life, Live, Sunday

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
Sophocles

Justice, Keep, Thou

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Government, Oppressor, Gives

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

Government, Society, Person

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Carter G. Woodson

Best, Give, Understand

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Olof Palme

Freedom, Political, Human

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

Two, Criticism, Variety

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell

Mind, Against, Manners

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine Albright

Freedom, Fight, Poverty

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes

Why, Means, Lord

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Home, Freedom, Strong

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins

Confusion, Quiet, Neat

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair

Freedom, Law, Same

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.
George W. Bush

Freedom, Put, Box

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez

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.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Life, Struggle, Political

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan

Education, Power, Freedom

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Benazir Bhutto

Peace, Terrorism, Necessary

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

Time, History, True

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Problems, Finding, Solutions

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Andrew Jackson

Men, Power, Greatest

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov

Faith, Nature, Corruption

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol

Equality, Conditions, Guarantee

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

Time, Half, Suspicion

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Marilyn Manson

Politics, Away, Taken

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Equality, Justice, Social

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