Democracy Quote by William Eggleston

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

— William Eggleston

You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State…

— Anna Louise Strong

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo… It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed…

— Julian Castro

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

— Bruce Springsteen

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

— Pearl S. Buck

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

— Anne Waldman

The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end…

— Jonah Goldberg