Top Democracy Quotes

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and fal...

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Democracy Definition

(n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.

(n.) Government by popular representation; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but is indirectly exercised through a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

(n.) Collectively, the people, regarded as the source of government.

(n.) The principles and policy of the Democratic party, so called.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and tru...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that...

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Democracy—here and in Britain and France, it hasn't been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia—even if it has produced ind...

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.