Democracy Quote by Tariq Ramadan

“I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.”

— Winston Churchill

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it…

— Wael Ghonim

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator…

— Reid Hoffman

We have had a long wait for democracy.

— Chen Shui-bian

“We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years, thinking, writing,…

— Steven Levitsky

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail

— Thomas Carlyle

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle,…

— Henry A. Giroux

“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

— Jan Masaryk

You know, the fact is that if we haven't got democracy, we have dictatorship. That is never the answer.

— Lindsay Hoyle