Democracy Quotes - page 94

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq. (John R. Bolton)
Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The whole notion of loyalty inquisitions is a national characteristic of the police state, not of democracy. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Every man has a right to be heard; but no man has the right to strangle democracy with a single set of vocal cords. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq. View quote
Bill Richardson
I believe leadership everywhere must continuously work to ensure that pluralism, and all its benefits, become top global priorities. In this effort, civil society has a vital role. By its very nature, civil society is pluralist because it seeks to speak for the multiple interests not represented by the state. I refer, for example, to organisations which ensure best practices such as legal societies and associations of accountants, doctors and engineers. The meritocracy they represent is the very foundation of pluralism. And meritocracy is one of the principles of democracy itself. View quote
Aga Khan IV
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. View quote
Tony Judt
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy. View quote
George Shultz
Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy. (Tzvetan Todorov)
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. View quote
Tariq Ali
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office. View quote
Tariq Ali
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. View quote
Tariq Ali
People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing. View quote
Tariq Ali
Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy. View quote
Tariq Ali
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence. View quote
Tariq Ali
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version of concentrated economics. And this means that any alternative - alternative capitalism, left Keynesianism, intervention by the state to help the poor, rolling back the privatizations - becomes a huge issue. The entire weight of the extreme center and its media is turned against it, which in reality now is beginning to harm democracy. View quote
Tariq Ali
The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments in Germany, which have been in power for a long time and still are even as we speak. That is the real problem: that there is no serious opposition in Germany at all. And the Left party is divided. View quote
Tariq Ali
And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable. View quote
Walter Lippmann
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator. (Walter Lippmann)
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. View quote
Michael Novak
How do they allow themselves to commit so many crimes? Is this the same democracy that Bush, Blair, and Sharon want to bring the Iraqi people as a gift? Death to this democracy. Is this how you want to present this democracy to the world? Shame on this democracy. Are you humans? Animals? What are you?...Why do they commit so many crimes? Stop it. Enough with the treachery. Enough with the crimes. The Iraqi people must know that they will steadfast. Even if half of them will be killed, they will not give up. View quote
Ebrahim Amini