Democracy Quotes · Page 162

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their…

— Noam Chomsky

India is the world's largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.

— Mehbooba Mufti

I'm happy to work with Democrats. After all, they have to represent their districts just as I have to represent mine.

— David Valadao

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour.

— Paul Merton

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

— David Cross

Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

— Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

— Michael Moore

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…

— Chinua Achebe

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to…

— H. L. Mencken

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to…

— Henry A. Wallace

All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government…

— David Oshinsky

[Most progressive in the Democratic Party] won't stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership or take a position against it, you know, which is an…

— Jill Stein

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the…

— James Russell Lowell

“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles…

— Alain de Botton

I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look…

— Jesse Ventura

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics…

— Henry Giroux

But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“Just a short while ago the Republicans were objects of fear and hatred—now they’re just pathetic assholes. Barry took them to the…

— Don Winslow

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far…

— Tony Benn

Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact…

— John Lewis

We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…

— Terry Tempest Williams

[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

[People] will be reminded of the integrity of our election systems and the confidence that they deserve to have.

— Audie Cornish

I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats... because we are right on the key issues.

— Lincoln Chafee

“The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The”

— Elizabeth Warren

Republicans believe an obstructionist, do-nothing Congress will deny Obama momentum and keep their base energized.

— Ari Melber

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

— Damian Green

The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death.

— Ilkin Santak

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

— Charles Wheelan

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.

— Terry McAuliffe

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

— Aldous Huxley

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

— Marvin Ammori

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.

— Rory Stewart

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity…

— Barack Obama

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her…

— C.S. Lewis

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is…

— Barack Obama

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

— Henry Miller