2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Be more receptive of your responsibility than you are of your rights.

Majority has no brain. It is just a momentum. Always recheck majority with morality.

Democrats fight where they have policy concerns... war for democrats is just another way of achieving the goals for which foreign aid would otherwise be used. Foreign aid buys policy concessions, war imposes them... democrats would much prefer to impose a compliant dictator,... then take their chances on the policies adopted by a democrat who must answer to her own domestic constituents

Because you're worth nothing without society, and also because we would all be dominated by others without political institutions that protect our rights.

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy?

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

Today, rather than a democracy we have a plutocracy (rule by moneyed interests) in which some of the formal elements of democracy nonetheless remain. Needless to say a real democracy ... is impossible where income, wealth, and power are concentrated and where inequality is growing, that is, in the normal ways of things under capitalism

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

In a democratic society the existence of large centers of private power is a dangerous to the continuing vitality of a free people.