Democracy Quotes · Page 88

We will continue civil disobedience to fight for democracy and for human rights in Hong Kong.

— Joshua Wong

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

— Edward Abbey

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

— Susana Martinez

Venezuela has immense talents and resources, and we can help rebuild our democracy.

— Juan Guaido

You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

— Ronald Reagan

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

— Alan Dershowitz

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

— Anatole France

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one…

— Thomas Jefferson

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are…

— Byron Dorgan

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity…

— Alex Salmond

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there…

— Atifete Jahjaga

What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very…

— Michael J. Knowles

[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very…

— Steve Inskeep

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that…

— C. Wright Mills

The 2020 Democratic primary is a failure of politics. Too many candidates in concert with media, dedicated to serving the interests of…

— Jessica Tarlov

Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people…

— Eli Broad

“The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working…

— Masha Gessen

What Republicans so cynically refer to as 'chain migration' is actually family-based immigration - a humane and compassionate policy of reunifying families.…

— Pramila Jayapal

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do…

— Grover Norquist

“Clearly, there is real force in this kind of objection to divine election. If there are the chosen, then there are also,…

— R. W. L. Moberly

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the…

— Eugene V. Debs

“The war is not between Republicans and Democrats or between conservatives and progressives. The war is between the frightened and what they…

— P.J. O'Rourke

There's a serious and worrying return to the fall of democracy in Spain, and it's not just us who are realising that.

— Carles Puigdemont

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

— Elizabeth Drew

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

— Abraham Lincoln

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season,…

— Edward Brooke

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

— Allen West

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

— Robert Kagan

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Remember, democracy is directing a theatre of unwilling participants, not leading an army of loyal followers.”

— James Maxwell

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan,…

— Frank Chodorov

Unlike the Congress, our party believes in democracy and takes a collective decision.

— Smriti Irani

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

— Tom Stoppard

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

— George W. Bush

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

— Ron Paul

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that…

— Indira Gandhi

“Allison's choice of movie was instantly vetoed, so Allison threw democracy out the window and put it in anyway.”

— Nora Sakavic