Democracy Now Quotes

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

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. — Jesse Helms

Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy — Munia Khan

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

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy. — Hugo Chavez

We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy. — TheKeyAuthor

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

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter. — A.E. Samaan

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it. — Narendra Modi

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. — Bertrand Russell

What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force. — Thomas Perez

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

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. — Khalil Gibran

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

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse. — Jeff Cooper

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

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

Someone once said that democracy was the flawed solution to a perfect mess ... — Andrew J. Robinson

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. — Muhammad Iqbal

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. — Lord Hailsham

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society. — Vladimir Putin

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

Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force. — J.G. Ballard

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy. — Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents. — Robert A. Heinlein

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden. — Unknown

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. — Paul Wellstone

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. — Nicholas Sparks

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. — Eskinder Nega

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy — Diane Ravitch

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race. — Frank Field

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
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Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft. — Nancy Isenberg

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can. — Robert D. Kaplan

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

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance. — Christopher Lasch

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda. — Judith C. Waller

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

Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. — Mo Ibrahim

For the first time you will have some real democracy in the world. What exists now as democracy is not democracy - it is mobocracy. — Osho

Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted. — Lena Horne

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. — Pearl S. Buck

Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy. — James Lovelock

I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' — Alice Walker

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible. — Ahmed Chalabi

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state. — Jeremy Corbyn

Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright". — Narendra Modi

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders. — George Hamilton

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

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson

Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy." But now "democracy" can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. — C.S. Lewis

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire ... — Thucydides

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' — Ezra Pound

I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast. — Ellen Page

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. — David Korten