Democracy Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

— Nigel Rees

Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.

— Nina Turner

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

— James Bryant Conant

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

— Alexander Meiklejohn

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

— Steve Earle

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds…

— Michael Sandel

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

— Vandana Shiva

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

— Carol Gilligan

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

— Azim Premji

I believe that when we respect and trust our democracy, this simple act unites and binds us together.

— Leslyn Lewis