Top 330 Democracies Have Quotes & Sayings

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Democracies don't go to war.

The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would say about someone who doesn't live in a democracy. Well, if democracy is the highest form of human potential, then it can't be true for us and not for them. But, the practical case is democracies don't invade their neighbors. Democracies don't traffic in child soldiers. Democracies don't harbor terrorists as a state policy. So there's a reason to have more democratic states.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time when the United States waged war to topple democracies, because back then democracy was a threat to the Free Market. Countries were nationalising their resources, protecting their markets.... So then, real democracies were being toppled. They were toppled in Iran, they were toppled all across Latin America, Chile.

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

I want people to understand that, look, we're in a period of democratic deficit, democratic recession. There are fewer democracies in the world today than in 2005, and in many of the countries that are still technically democracies, we're seeing a reduction in the rule of law. And that's especially true in Central Europe, but it's also true of places like South Africa, the Philippines.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.

I agree with those who say that democracies need to work together more effectively to stand up for the liberal democratic model that China is increasingly challenging. It's important for there to be an alliance of democracies.

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Lynch mobs are democracies.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

Democracies take time.

Democracies are not very stable.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

Iraq and Afghanistan are now democracies and they are allies in the cause of freedom and peace.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.

Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive.

Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution... Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.

No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico - ultimately developed into democracies. But it took decades.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

All of my novels are democracies.

Unity among like-minded liberal democracies is paramount.