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The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure.
— Angelos Michalopoulos
The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.
— George W. Bush
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
— Karl Popper
Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao
In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.
— John McCain
Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn democracy?
— Lilith Saintcrow
It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.
— Juan Manuel Santos
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
— Abraham Lincoln
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered.
— R. Lee Wrights
I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
— Chellie Pingree
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
— Noam Chomsky
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
— Michael Bloomberg
Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy,
— Mirabeau B. Lamar
Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
— Karl Kautsky
"Iraq and Afghanistan ...are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace."
— George W. Bush
We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.
— Mairead Corrigan
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
— Stanley Fish
And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.
— Daniel Greenberg
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
— Alberto Moravia
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
— William James
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
— Vladimir Putin
Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen.
— Woody Guthrie
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
— David Harsanyi
We were looking forward to democracy and now people asked, "If Benazir can die, nobody is safe." It felt as if my country were running out of hope.
— Malala Yousafzai
Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.
— William J. Clinton
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
— H.L. Mencken
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
— Edmund Burke
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
— Christopher Lasch
I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
— Ellen Page
The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.
— Judith C. Waller
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored
— John Anderson
Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
— Nicholas Sparks
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?
— Lee Kuan Yew
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
— George Hamilton
Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".
— Narendra Modi
The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
— Ahmed Chalabi
I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!'
— Alice Walker
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
— James Lovelock
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
— Max Lerner
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ...
— Andrew J. Robinson
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
— Andy Zaltzman
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
— Khalil Gibran
What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.
— Thomas Perez
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
— Bertrand Russell
We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals.
— Lonnie Bunch
Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.
— Colum McCann
Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.
— Narendra Modi
Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.
— A.E. Samaan
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.
— George H. W. Bush
Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.
— Nancy Isenberg
Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120 — Kazuo Ishiguro
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy
— Diane Ravitch
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
— Eskinder Nega
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
— Paul Wellstone
Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
— Robert A. Heinlein
democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
— Robert D. Kaplan
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
— Nelson Mandela
Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
— Natan Sharansky
As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
— Naguib Mahfouz
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force.
— J.G. Ballard
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
— Vladimir Putin
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
— Lord Hailsham