Democracy Quotes · Page 160

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

— Mao Zedong

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

— Lillian Hellman

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

Democrats in New York and across the country are putting criminals above law-abiding citizen.

— George Santos

Republicans are calling the Bush-Cheney ticket the 'Wizard of Oz' ticket. One needs a heart and the other needs a brain.

— Jay Leno

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

— Rush Limbaugh

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

— Anonymous

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

— John Rawls

Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not…

— Craig Ferguson

There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that…

— Jan Schakowsky

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,…

— Irving Babbitt

[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people…

— Paul Laxalt

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that…

— Athol Fugard

Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not…

— Ilkin Santak

There's a reason that you hear something like 90 percent of our country wants universal background checks, but we can't get it…

— MJ Hegar

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy…

— Samuel P. Huntington

After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Republicrat” is a portmanteau word comprised of the names of the two main political parties in the United States: the Republicans and…

— Joseph Befumo

The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase…

— Vandana Shiva

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That…

— Henry Rosovsky

Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the…

— Peter Padfield

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote…

— Allen West

“. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world…

— John Piper

It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage…

— Mario Cuomo

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans, and only Americans, should decide our elections. That's just common sense and foundational to our democracy.

— Dean Phillips

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

— Theodor Adorno

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have…

— Elijah Cummings

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

— Evo Morales

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

— Ann Coulter

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

— Asha Rangappa

My voting rights agenda is not that different from what you'd see in H.R. 1.

— Pete Buttigieg

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

— George Soros

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

— Clement Attlee

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no…

— Marian Wright Edelman

When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

— Conan O'Brien

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

— Jason Kander

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood