Corporations Quote by Arundhati Roy

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Shirin Ebadi

Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Frances Moore Lappé

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

— Pearl S. Buck

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't…

— Ramsey Clark

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,…

— Sam Levenson

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi