Democracy Quotes · Page 29

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

— Dan Harmon

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

— Stefan Molyneux

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

— Terry Pratchett

“Democratic institutions strongly tend to promote the feeling of envy.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.

— Bashar al-Assad

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

— Heather Wilson

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

— Ed Koch

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

— David Dellinger

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

— Kevin Drum

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

— John Maynard Keynes

Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you.

— Ilkin Santak

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in…

— Ann Coulter

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

— Park Geun-hye

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

— John McCain

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

— Ha-Joon Chang

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do…

— Benjamin Graham

Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we…

— Jose Saramago

The world is threatened by terrorism and violent extremism like never before. The rule of law is one of our chief defences…

— Peter MacKay

“At the age of nineteen [44 BC] on my own responsibility and at my own expense I raised an army, with which…

— Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the 21st century, our adversaries will continue to use cyberattacks against us. We need to be prepared to defend our networks…

— Amy Klobuchar

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a…

— Robert Musil

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social…

— Albert Einstein

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we…

— Douglas Valentine

“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the…

— Teddy Roosevelt

“Socialists have advocated numerous ways of democratizing the economy, from setting up worker cooperatives to nationalizing major industries... At the core of…

— Nathan J. Robinson

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I have given to some Republicans, I've given to some Democrats.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.

— Eric Garcetti

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.

— Sheldon Adelson

[The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up.

— Barack Obama

Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed.

— Brad Pitt

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

— James W. Loewen

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

— James Surowiecki