Democracy Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Democracy
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~ Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. ~

Noam Chomsky

~ Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority ~

Barber B. Conable

~ Information is the currency of democracy ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried ~

Winston Churchill

~ Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor ~

James Russell Lowell

~ It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting ~

Tom Stoppard

~ Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. ~

Barack Obama

~ t’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy. ~

John Richardson

~ My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ~

Woodrow Wilson

~ Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. ~

Brent Scowcroft

~ Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ~

G. K. Chesterton

~ Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ~

Joseph A. Schumpeter

~ Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ~

Augusto Pinochet

~ Adultery is the application of democracy to love ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative ~

Henry Grady Weaver

~ Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ “In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.” ~

Lincoln Kirstein

~ Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. ~

Stead,WilliamThomas

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

Alan Coren

~ The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ~

Mary Catherine Bateson

~ Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. ~

Corazon Aquino

~ Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. ~

John Adams

~ Some areas that spring to mind are agriculture, democracy building, disaster relief, education, and science and technology. ~

Richard Boucher

~ The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. ~

Noam Chomsky

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