Democracy Quotes

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

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

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

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.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.