Democracy Quote by Pete Domenici

Democracy is just a word when the people are starving.

— Immortal Technique

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy,

— Frances Moore Lappé

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

— Andrew Napolitano

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog…

— Nelson Mandela

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability…

— Bashar al-Assad

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

— George Aiken

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power.…

— Frances Moore Lappé

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom.…

— Thomas Sowell

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

— Lech Walesa

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we…

— Indira Gandhi

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

— Ferdinand Marcos