Democracy Quotes · Page 185

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.”

— Jayseth Guberman

I'm from Dominican republic and I always try to be but not always we can try to be our country.

— Angelica Gonell

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

— Andrew Vachss

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

— Ana Navarro

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

— Violeta Chamorro

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you…

— Thomas Massie

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…

— Ludwig von Mises

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door…

— Winston Churchill

Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public…

— Jim DeMint

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to…

— David Cameron

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone…

— Michael Moore

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure…

— John R. Commons

Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system…

— David Ignatius

Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults…

— Annie Lowrey

The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of…

— Flannery O'Connor

Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded…

— H. L. Mencken

The Democrats would want to keep the taxes. And Republicans want to do away with taxes that are driving up the costs…

— John Thune

Let's not use the term democracy as a play on words which is what people commonly do, using human rights as a…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.…

— Florence King

“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it…

— Alexander Berkman

I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with…

— Luis Gutierrez

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a…

— Noam Chomsky

Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.

— John Redwood

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

— John Dewey

That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

— John Dingell

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

— James Bryant Conant

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

— Hillary Clinton

Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

— Morrie Brickman

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a…

— Anonymous

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

— Sam Smith

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

— Thomas E. Mann

“Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the…

— Sheldon Rampton

Democrats in office are not representing Democrats, rank-and-file, who elected them.

— George Santos

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of…

— Cindy Sheehan

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

— Margaret Thatcher

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

— Moby