Able Quote by Ricardo Lagos

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise…

— Poul Henningsen

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Citizens no longer understand democracy to mean a condition of political equality, in which one person gets one vote, and every individual is no…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I understand how democracy works. Quite a little bit of criticism in it, which is fine. That's fine. That's part of the process. But…

— George W. Bush

We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens…

— Nicolae Ceausescu

We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can…

— Ilhan Omar

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the…

— Simeon Strunsky

Our country, though it is not a theocracy, you will not understand democracy if you don't understand the biblical foundations and traditions and foundation…

— Paula White

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power.…

— Amory Lovins

I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become…

— Vik Muniz

When a man is right with God, God will freely use him.

— F.B. Meyer