Top 1200 Direct Democracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

Political democracy has failed in the U.S. because there hasn't been economic democracy.

Debate and discussions strengthen democracy but violence during protests weaken democracy.

I don?t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

All the more reason we need to stand up for our democracy now. If we're going to solve the crises that are barreling down on us, we need democracy, and our democracy needs to start with an open and inclusive debate. That doesn't mean 20 candidates. There are four candidates who are on the ballot for just about every voter in America.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

Institutions are better served by going direct to end users, establishing a channel for direct dialogue and feedback. It is a world of many to one, not one to many.

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie.