America Quote by Natan Sharansky

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

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…

— Flora Lewis

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things…

— Robert A. Dahl

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back,…

— D. H. Lawrence

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

— Irving Babbitt

We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll