Democracy Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and…

— Anthony Crosland

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow,…

— John Ralston Saul

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of…

— Walt Whitman

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

— Gerald R. Ford

Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

— Max Mosley

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

— Norman Finkelstein

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point…

— Milton Friedman

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

— Henry Ward Beecher