Democracy Quotes - page 3

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Irving Kristol)
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. View quote
Shimon Peres
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. View quote
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
We must be the great arsenal of Democracy. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship. View quote
Don Tapscott
I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. View quote
Langston Hughes
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. View quote
Alan Bullock
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. (Liu Xiaobo)
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. View quote
Bill Clinton
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. View quote
Fisher Ames
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark. View quote
William James
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. View quote
James Bovard
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy. View quote
Ron Paul
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius? View quote
Leó Szilárd
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. View quote
Norman Mailer
The "democracy gap" in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the "least worst” every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the "least worst” gets worse. (Ralph Nader)
There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. View quote
George W. Bush
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali