Top Democracy Quotes

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

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.

If elections could change anything, they would have already made them forbidden.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

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

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a...

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it w...

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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...

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

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable b...

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...

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent p...

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn't.

Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see tha...