Democracy Quotes · Page 96

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they…

— Alice Walker

“Every democracy, whether ochlocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, anarchy, proletarian, popular, or liberal, is by its very nature always a scotocracy, that is,…

— Andrej Poleev

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,…

— Richard Heinberg

New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens…

— Harry Boyte

“the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur,…

— Douglas Adams

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has…

— Edward Said

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and…

— Al Gore

My parents were Democrats.

— Susana Martinez

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

— Jane Mayer

You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're…

— Irvine Welsh

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must…

— William J Federer

The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy,…

— Gerry Spence

Burma is not yet a full-fledged democracy. We have started working on the road to full democracy. We have a lot of…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

— Bill James

When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk…

— John F. Kerry

Democracy, of course, requires strong demands from the public.

— John Ralston Saul

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

— Suzy Kassem

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

— John Adams

“Experts need to remember, always, that they are the servants and not the masters of a democratic society and a republican government.…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory.

— Jair Bolsonaro

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

— Jamie Dimon

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in…

— Gwynne Dyer

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or…

— Pete Seeger

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

— Frank Field

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the…

— Jason Kander

Ron DeSantis is right: Republicans must aggressively fight back in the culture wars. They didn't start the wars, but they have an…

— Miranda Devine

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

— Plato

Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

— Richard J. Daley

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest…

— Melina Mercouri

We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like…

— Jaron Lanier

Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of…

— Barack Obama

The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals…

— Ilkin Santak

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship.…

— William J. Clinton