Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Tony Judt

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

Naomi Wolf

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Ismail Haniyeh

History never repeats itself, historians do.

The Concept Of Jacksonian Democracy: New York As A Test Case

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Barbara Boxer

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

Ibrahim Babangida

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

Steve Earle

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Africa must remain on the path of democracy. But democracy MUST also remain about the PEOPLE, not about power

Fela Durotoye

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Iqbal Quadir

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Eduardo Galeano

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

John Oliver

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Jeannette Rankin

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

Michelle Bachelet

Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longe...

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same econom...

John Pilger