Democracy Means Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
— Johnny Carson
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I…
— Langston Hughes
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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 to…
— Noam Chomsky
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When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do…
— Naomi Wolf
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The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
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Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
— Ronald Reagan
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Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
— Winston Churchill
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Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community…
— Michael Manley
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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally…
— John Dewey
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
— Jack Ma
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I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history,…
— David Boies
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
— Langston Hughes
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
— Karl Kraus
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Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and…
— Michael Moore
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Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war…
— Shimon Peres
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
— Oscar Wilde
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding…
— Isaac Asimov
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Democracy means decision by those concerned.
— Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
— Clement Attlee
Who Wrote These Democracy Means Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Democracy Means Quotes as follows: