Democracy Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

— Charles Lindbergh

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

— Barack Obama

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology,…

— Walt Whitman

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

— Mary Parker Follett

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

— Vladimir Putin

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

— Jill Lepore