Democracy Quotes - page 10

We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist. (Anthony Crosland)
Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them. View quote
Anthony Crosland
It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! View quote
C. Wright Mills
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. View quote
David Brin
Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. View quote
Walter Lippmann
With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks. View quote
Ahmed Djemal
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient. (Nigel Farage)
I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent [of GNP] and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy. View quote
Roy Jenkins
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. View quote
Indro Montanelli
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant. View quote
Indro Montanelli
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community. View quote
Tony Benn
Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise. View quote
Tony Benn
Democracy is not something we have, it's something we do. View quote
Doris Haddock
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi. View quote
George Orwell
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. (Abu Bakar Bashir)
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership 'til they have lost the desire to lead anyone. View quote
William Beveridge
What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs. View quote
Rex Stout
The Iraqi prime minister is an anti-Semite. We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe that Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself and who refuse to condemn Hezbollah. View quote
Howard Dean
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. View quote
Woodrow Wilson