Democracy Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to…

— Olof Palme

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the…

— Jonathan D. Morris

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

— Jerome Nathanson

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

— Fiona Shaw

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

— Lord Hailsham

True democracy is allowing freedom for others even though it reduces ones own.

— Robert D Dangoor

“As my father once explained to me, our “rights” are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people’s…

— George Takei

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

— Anonymous

It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. ... The…

— Karl Popper