A Quote by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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Robert W. Welch, Jr.
American - Businessman
December 1, 1899 - January 6, 1985

The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.

Bernard Lewis

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Tim Sandlin

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

Gladys Pyle

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.

Noam Chomsky

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy just means going to vote, it's pretty meaningless. Russia has democracy in that sense. Most authoritarian regimes have democracy in that sense.

Timothy D. Snyder

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

David Cunliffe

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Socialisms not a word that I use. I say social democracy because I dont think the government needs to own all the means of production.

David Cunliffe

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Bernie Sanders

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of large government and social benefits and everything and that's against what is my position, because I think that the ultimate vision of Marx, Engels, and those people was to eliminate government entities and to give as much power to the people. And in modern standing that means direct democracy, that means all the power to the communities, it means gradually eliminating all government oppression on the society. And 100 years ago, leftists' major allies were labor unions.

Ilya Ponomarev

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same as to say that it is merely a word which is powerful with us, and not the wide and true notion of what the word means. But we must define the true import of words, and not be slaves to syllables; for democracy in form is not necessarily people-power in fact, but power perhaps of a few, who cajole the many and so lead and use the people for their own ends.

James Vila Blake

"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe.

Andre Vltchek

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

Selwyn Hughes

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