Democracy Quotes · Page 133

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

— D. H. Lawrence

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

— Melanie Phillips

If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

— Molly Ivins

America's values call us to stand by a peaceful democracy fighting for its life.

— Lloyd Austin

Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.

— Nicholas Bloom

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

My advice to Republicans: Stop worrying about the 'Hispanic' vote. Focus on being true to your party platform, because the party that…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the…

— Nelson Mandela

I'm just truly offended when I hear people call themselves patriots whose definition is trying to destroy democracy. What's patriotic about trying…

— Wes Moore

“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public…

— Rosa Luxemburg

In my view, Democrats and Republicans work together too little, and I would try to change that if I got to be…

— Lindsey Graham

There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end…

— Pankaj Mishra

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience…

— Natan Sharansky

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .…

— Florence Luscomb

“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in…

— Timothy Snyder

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But…

— Demosthenes

Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002…

— Craig McDonald

“Our concept of truth becomes more universal as we reach higher levels of consciousness and awareness, taking in a wider spectrum of…

— Robert David Steele

Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for…

— David Duke

I do think that our democracy is so great, we can withstand even a candidacy of Donald Trump. And when we emerge…

— Nancy Pelosi

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can…

— Anonymous

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

— Jack Kemp

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

— Muhammad Iqbal

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

— Steven Weber

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its…

— Herbert Hoover

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

— Will Rogers

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

— Timothy Noah

“the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What”

— Angela Y. Davis

When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning.

— Anna Paulina Luna

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

— Virginia Foxx

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

— Konstantin Ushinsky

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

— Pauly Shore

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you…

— Steven Pinker

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

“Democracy is a system were ignorants choose a government, comunism is a system where ignorants govern themselves.”

— Daniel Delgado F

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas