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title: "63 Democracy Means Quotes by 51 authors"
description: "Browse 63 Democracy Means quotes by 51 authors. Discover the best Democracy Means sayings and thoughts."
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> [Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-carson/democracy-means-free-television-not-good-television-but-free/)

[Johnny Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-carson/)

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> [Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/democracy-means-the-belief-that-humanistic-culture-should-prevail/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/democracy-means-simply-the-bludgeoning-of-the-people-by-the-people/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [I want people to learn what democracy means.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-ma/i-want-people-to-learn-what-democracy-means/)

[Jack Ma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-ma/)

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> [Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-kraus/democracy-means-the-opportunity-to-be-everyone-s-slave/)

[Karl Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-kraus/)

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> [I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/langston-hughes/i-swear-to-the-lord-i-still-can-t-see-why-democracy-means-everybody/)

[Langston Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/langston-hughes/)

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> [Democracy means decision by those concerned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-friedrich-von-weizsacker/democracy-means-decision-by-those-concerned/)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

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> [Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-parker/democracy-means-not-i-am-as-good-as-you-are-but-you-are-as-good-as-i/)

[Theodore Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-parker/)

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> [“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-nathanson/democracy-means-that-people-respect-the-rights-of-others-including/)

Jerome Nathanson

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> [Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/democracy-means-the-organization-of-society-for-the-benefit-and-at/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [“Democracy means perfect equality of opportunity, especially in education; not the rotation of every Tom, Dick and Harry in public office.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-durant/democracy-means-perfect-equality-of-opportunity-especially-in/)

[Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-durant/)

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> [Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/real-democracy-means-that-no-group-or-faction-or-leader-can-impose/)

[Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/)

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> [Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-kozol/political-struggle-is-the-most-important-thing-any-of-us-can-do-as-a/)

[Jonathan Kozol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-kozol/)

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> [Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-carson/democracy-means-that-anyone-can-grow-up-to-be-president-and-anyone/)

[Johnny Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-carson/)

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> ["Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-vltchek/democracy-means-nothing-else-other-than-rule-of-the-people-in-greek/)

[Andre Vltchek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-vltchek/)

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> [To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/to-me-democratic-socialism-means-democracy-it-means-creating-a/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-levenson/democracy-means-doing-whatever-you-want-without-asking-permission-of/)

[Sam Levenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-levenson/)

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> [But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-lenin/but-democracy-is-by-no-means-a-limit-one-may-not-overstep-it-is-only/)

[Vladimir Lenin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-lenin/)

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> [Thank the Lord, Germanic democracy means just this: that any old climber or moral slacker cannot rise by devious paths to govern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/thank-the-lord-germanic-democracy-means-just-this-that-any-old/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-putin/democracy-means-the-power-of-the-people-and-the-possibility-of/)

[Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-putin/)

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> [The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clyde-kluckhohn/the-practice-of-democracy-means-that-i-one-person-one-humble-person/)

[Clyde Kluckhohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clyde-kluckhohn/)

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> [I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/i-think-what-democracy-means-today-in-reality-is-to-a-large-extent/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalton-trumbo/democracy-means-that-people-can-say-what-they-want-to-all-the-people/)

[Dalton Trumbo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalton-trumbo/)

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> [Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ida-tarbell/perhaps-our-national-ambition-to-standardize-ourselves-has-behind-it/)

[Ida Tarbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ida-tarbell/)

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> [Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/democracy-doesn-t-mean-much-if-people-have-to-confront-concentrated/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-boies/i-think-what-it-was-about-was-the-people-s-right-to-vote-and-have/)

[David Boies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-boies/)

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> [The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-lewis/the-word-democracy-is-a-western-word-obviously-it-doesn-t-exist-in/)

[Bernard Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-lewis/)

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> [“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-muslims-now-find-themselves-in-a-world-shaped-by-western-theories/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-minogue/my-concern-with-democracy-is-highly-specific-it-begins-in-observing/)

[Kenneth Minogue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-minogue/)

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> [Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalton-trumbo/everybody-now-seems-to-be-talking-about-democracy-i-don-t-understand/)

[Dalton Trumbo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalton-trumbo/)

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> [Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deforest-soaries/democracy-means-that-you-have-the-right-to-vote-without-intimidation/)

[DeForest Soaries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deforest-soaries/)

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> [Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/good-citizenship-and-defending-democracy-means-living-up-to-the/)

[Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/)

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> [“High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/high-hopes-were-once-formed-of-democracy-but-democracy-means-simply/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-anton-wilson/the-worst-that-can-happen-under-monarchy-is-rule-by-a-single-imbecile/)

[Robert Anton Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-anton-wilson/)

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> [If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-clinton/if-the-people-of-the-middle-east-are-not-sure-what-democracy-means/)

[Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-clinton/)

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> [The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/the-false-notion-that-democracy-means-that-my-ignorance-is-just-as/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/democracy-means-that-if-the-doorbell-rings-in-the-early-hours-it-is/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bond/it-s-politely-assumed-that-democracy-is-a-means-of-containing-and/)

[Edward Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bond/)

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> [Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-churchill/democracy-means-that-when-there-s-a-knock-in-the-door-at-3-am-it-s/)

[Winston Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-churchill/)

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> [Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/democracy-means-government-by-the-uneducated-while-aristocracy-means/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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                        "text": "Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.",
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                        "text": "Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.",
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                        "text": "Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.",
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                        "text": "I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.",
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                        "text": "The word \"democracy\" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.",
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                        "text": "“But Muslims now find themselves in a world shaped by western theories and western values. If we are to consider how Islamic communities conducted their affairs throughout the greater part of their history, it may be convenient to compare and contrast this way of life with the contemporary western model. Today the Muslims are urged to embrace democracy and are condemned for political corruption, while western scholars debate whether Islam can ever accommodate the democratic ideal. On the whole, they think not. Democracy, they believe, is a sign of political maturity and therefore of superiority. Western societies, since they are seen as democratic, exemplify this superiority. So there is one question that has to be pressed home: what, precisely, is meant by democracy? Let me put forward an imaginary Arab who knows nothing of western ways but would like to learn about them. He is aware that the literal meaning of the word democracy is \"mob rule\", but understands that this is not what westerners mean by it. He wonders how this meaning has, in practice, been modified and, since his questions are directed to an Englishman, he is not altogether surprised to be told that Britain is the exemplary democracy. He learns that the people—all except children, lunatics and peers of the realm—send their representatives to Parliament to speak for them. He is assured that these representatives never accept bribes to vote against their consciences or against the wishes of their constituents. He enquires further and is astonished to learn that the political parties employ what are known as Whips, who compel members to vote in accordance with the party line, even if this conflicts both with their consciences and with the views of the people who elected them. In this case it is not money but ambition for office that determines the way they vote. \"But is this not corruption?\" he asks naively. The Englishman is shocked. \"But at least the party in power represents the vast majority of the electorate?\" This time the Englishman is a little embarrassed. It is not quite like that. The governing party, which enjoys absolute power through its dominance in the House of Commons, represents only a minority of the electorate. \"Are there no restraints on this power?\" There used to be, he is told. In the past there was a balance between the Crown, the House of Lords and the Commons, but that was seen as an undemocratic system so it was gradually eroded. The \"sovereignty\" of the Lower House is now untrammelled (except, quite recently, by unelected officials in Brussels). \"So this is what democracy means?\" Our imaginary Arab is baffled. He investigates further and is told that, in the 1997 General Election, the British people spoke with one voice, loud and clear. A landslide victory gave the Leader of the Labour Party virtually dictatorial powers. Then he learns that the turn-out of electors was the lowest since the war. Even so, the Party received only forty-three per cent of the votes cast. He wonders if this can be the system which others wish to impose on his own country. He is aware that various freedoms, including freedom of the press, are essential components of a democratic society, but no one can tell him how these are to be guaranteed if the Ruler, supported by a supine—\"disciplined\"—House of Commons enjoys untrammelled authority. He knows a bit about rulers and the way in which they deal with dissent, and he suspects that human nature is much the same everywhere. Barriers to oppression soon fall when a political system eliminates all \"checks and balances\" and, however amiable the current Ruler may be, there is no certainty that his successors, inheriting all the tools of power, will be equally benign. He turns now to an American and learns, with some relief since he himself has experienced the oppression of absolutism, that the American system restrains the power of the President by that of the Congress and the Supreme Court; moreover, the electe”",
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                        "text": "“My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us. No philosopher can contemplate this interesting situation without beginning to reflect on what it can mean. The gap between political realities and their public face is so great that the term “paradox” tends to crop up from sentence to sentence. Our rulers are theoretically “our” representatives, but they are busy turning us into the instruments of the projects they keep dreaming up. The business of governments, one might think, is to supply the framework of law within which we may pursue happiness on our own account. Instead, we are constantly being summoned to reform ourselves. Debt, intemperance, and incompetence in rearing our children are no doubt regrettable, but they are vices, and left alone, they will soon lead to the pain that corrects. Life is a better teacher of virtue than politicians, and most sensible governments in the past left moral faults to the churches. But democratic citizenship in the twenty-first century means receiving a stream of improving “messages” from politicians. Some may forgive these intrusions because they are so well intentioned. Who would defend prejudice, debt, or excessive drinking? The point, however, is that our rulers have no business telling us how to live. They are tiresome enough in their exercise of authority—they are intolerable when they mount the pulpit. Nor should we be in any doubt that nationalizing the moral life is the first step towards totalitarianism. We might perhaps be more tolerant of rulers turning preachers if they were moral giants. But what citizen looks at the government today thinking how wise and virtuous it is? Public respect for politicians has long been declining, even as the population at large has been seduced into demanding political solutions to social problems. To demand help from officials we rather despise argues for a notable lack of logic in the demos. The statesmen of eras past have been replaced by a set of barely competent social workers eager to take over the risks of our everyday life. The electorates of earlier times would have responded to politicians seeking to bribe us with such promises with derision. Today, the demos votes for them.”",
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                        "text": "Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for… Democracy means that people can say what theywant to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well. It means that everybody should have a job, if he's willing to work, and an education, and the right to bring up his children without fear of the future. And it means that the old shall be provided for, without shame to themselves or to their families. It means do unto others as you would have others do unto you. It also means the prayers of the pilgrim fathers in the wilderness, and the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, and the Emancipation Proclamation, and the dreamsof an immigrant mother for her children. And that's what I believe in.",
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                        "text": "Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.",
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                        "text": "“High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”",
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