Top Democracy Quotes

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states pr...

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy

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.

My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference...

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical...

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The "democratization of education" is everyone's fight, everyone's right.

There is nothing virtuous or noble about being "tolerant" of people whose attitudes and behaviors you approve of. If you don't defend the freedom of even those individuals whose attitudes and behavior...

Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as le...

...I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.Instead of having to earn it, you have been handed the presidency, the same way you've come by everything else in your life. Money and...

...Bad behavior is bipartisan, but the Left seems to have an instinct for violence. This makes perfect sense for a worldview with revolutionary underpinnings....But yet, they claim oppression due to t...

Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing...

The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in...

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement,...

You're a part of the order if you're not against it.

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.