Democracies Quotes

Lynch mobs are democracies.

— Neal Boortz

All of my novels are democracies.

— Amos Oz

Democracies don't go to war.

— Manmohan Singh

Democracies die behind closed doors.

— Damon Keith

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Democracies are not very stable.

— Rush Limbaugh

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

— William Eldridge Odom

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

— Alan Dershowitz

Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

— Antony Blinken

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

— Thomas E. Mann

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

— Benazir Bhutto

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

— Jalal Talabani

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.

— Crispin Blunt

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

— Barack Obama

Financially supporting the self determination of democracies keeps the U.S. safer and protects the rest of the world.

— Jasmine Crockett

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

— David Eagleman

“the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in…

— Aristotle

Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult…

— Amos Elon

What other, newer democracies find relatively easy - conducting an election, the counting of votes, the peaceful transition of power - seems…

— Barkha Dutt

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In…

— Christiane Amanpour

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization…

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the…

— David Frum

If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote.…

— Naomi Wolf

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of…

— Roberto Unger

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many…

— Ed Royce

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal,…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is…

— James Buchan

The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would…

— Condoleezza Rice

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of…

— James Madison

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,…

— John Pilger

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means…

— Anonymous

“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years,…

— Steven Levitsky

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time…

— Arundhati Roy

“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves.…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

— Steve Hilton