Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

E. M. Forster

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

Gustave Flaubert

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Gary Hamel

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

Gijs de Vries

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

Jim Ryun

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

David Baldacci

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

David Brin

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

James Russell Lowell

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Herbert Croly

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Stephane Hessel

Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Orhan Pamuk

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.

Annette Lu

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

Joichi Ito

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Noah Feldman

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

Lupita Nyong'o

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev