Top 1200 Parliamentary Democracy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I want people to learn what democracy means.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Europe is a democracy and differences of opinion are part of it.

If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?

Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence in history. Here we will discover even more fundamental forces at work over time. And to appreciate those forces we must now and then get out of parliamentary chambers, out of birthing rooms and factories, get out of doors altogether, and ramble into fields, woods, and the open air. It is time we bought a good set of walking shoes, and we cannot avoid getting some mud on them.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

Nature is actually the greatest democracy in the world.

So, I'm a big believer in democracy and human rights.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

I've never known a country to be starved into democracy.

You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

We preach democracy while supporting dictatorships.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

I do think a healthy opposition is very necessary in a democracy.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.