All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is e….

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain..

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than ….

Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...….

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,….

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, im….

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, u….

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks..

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obli….

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism..

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces de….

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any pe….

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its pract….

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs..

I will not be standing for office. I'm nearing 70; there are younger people within our movement. I just wish to contribute intellectually to the hist….

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper..

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves..

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy..

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions..

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done -….

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life..