Character Quote by Jill Stein

Democracy is moral before it is political.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

“The evident problem with democracy today is that the state is pre-empting—or “crowding out,” as the economists say—our moral judgments. Rulers are adding moral…

— Kenneth Minogue

Democracy without morality is impossible.

— Jack Kemp

“Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral.”

— Ronald R. Cooke

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.

— Frank Lowy

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

— Paul Wellstone

In a democracy, people tend to get the kind of government they deserve.

— John Lanchester

Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

— Najib Razak

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

— Dick Gregory

Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.

— Nirmala Srivastava