Explore Quotes on Democracy

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.

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

The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.

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

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

Our democracy's history is littered with names we neither remember nor celebrate - people who stood in the way of progress while protecting the powerful. On Wednesday, a number of senators voted to join that list.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise.

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.