Aspiration Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

— Hillary Clinton

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

— Karl Marx

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It…

— Paulo Freire

“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,…

— Joost A. M. Meerloo

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

— R. H. Tawney

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Democracy is not perfect.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly