Democracy Quotes · Page 188

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

— Dick Gephardt

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

— Aristotle

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.

— Alfred Doblin

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

— Neil Young

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

— Robert Breault

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

— Kin Hubbard

No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over…

— Kofi Annan

Well, protest is central to the evolution of black American culture. It was protest that really finally won our freedom for us.…

— Shelby Steele

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed…

— Jess Phillips

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take…

— Margrethe Vestager

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them,…

— Noam Chomsky

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy.…

— Howard Rheingold

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

— Elizabeth May

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T.…

— Al Franken

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long…

— Shirin Ebadi

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed…

— Peace Pilgrim

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but…

— Glenn Greenwald

“Citizen involvement in democracy triggers criticism and creative attitude, the spirit of competition and transparency as well. This is the dynamic of…

— Toba Beta

There is a reason the Democrats have had only two Presidents since 1968 and have managed to lose control of both houses…

— Pat Sajak

I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they…

— Annie Leonard

I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided…

— Andrew Mango

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert

Every nations problem is politics by ignoring the country,religion without considering god.

— Sumesh Nair

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

— Nick Lampson

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

— Hasan Minhaj

We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.

— Glenn Ford

I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November [2016].

— Hillary Clinton

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

When you see all of the smoke billowing up from the Democrats, ladies and gentlemen, I'd follow the advice of their nominee:…

— Ronald Reagan

The real fight isn't left or right but between forces of democracy across the spectrum and the forces of tyranny.

— Naomi Wolf

Either you support the existing global elite, or you want real change and believe in nation-state democracy.

— Nigel Farage

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction…

— Barbara Jordan

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

— Doug Larson

“Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.”

— Daniel Bliss

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

— Fred Reed

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

— S. I. Hayakawa