Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy. — David Mixner Copy Share Image
I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that… — Birgitta Jonsdottir Copy Share Image
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and… — George Will Copy Share Image
With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by… — Sheldon S. Wolin Copy Share Image
“In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The most durable kind of change is that which is people-driven. In each of our transitions - from colonialism to independence, to… — SBYudhoyono Copy Share Image
I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
“Democracy is about one person, one vote. It’s about all of us coming together to determine the future of our country. It… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“The real origin of the democratic spirit - and most likely, many democratic institutions - lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If cars and buses were attacked daily by petrol bombs or stones for 16 months in Washington, could you imagine it would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to mobilize a new coalition of conscience to restore the Voting Rights Act, strengthen voting rights and broaden voter… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political… — Jack Keane Copy Share Image
The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
