Democracy Quotes & Sayings

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~ Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. ~

Robert Orben

~ People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. ~

Walter H. Judd

~ Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? ~

John Cotton

~ To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ~

Louis L\'Amour

~ I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. ~

Barack Obama

~ Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. ~

Henry Kissinger

~ A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~

Bill Vaughan

~ Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Envy is the basis of Democracy ~

Bertrand Russell

~ The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publicís general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, itís an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority. ~

Teresa Stover

~ The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ~

Tom Lantos

~ Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy ~

Unknown

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. ~

Joni Mitchell

~ A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. ~

Bernardo Bertolucci

~ The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom, and leadership - the American worker. ~

US Department of Labor

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