2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodelled to be market friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to install democracies. First is was topple them, now it's install them. And the whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility--it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In a sense, it's all part of the same machine.

Říkalo se, že demokracie byla jedním z důvodů konečnéválky. Ale vláda hlupáků bude špatná, ať bude její forma jakákoli.

McNeil, who was a pretty observing man about some things, found that California was 'The only country in which I have seen true democracy prevailing.

Vždycky znova a do nepříčetnosti mě nasere, když si uvědomím, že o mém osudu, o posranosti celého mého života, rozhodli ti idioti, kteří v roce 1946 volili komunistickou partaj. Dobrovolně, ve svobodných, skutečně svobodných volbách!

We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.

Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life.

Do you know that those who preach pluralism and human rights,cannot give those rights to the Din of Islam?Those who preach democracy throughout the globe cannot give it to the Palestinians -lest Israel should cry!

That we should all have a say in choosing our own rulers and that those rulers ‘powers over us should be limited—these principles are in obvious tension, as every society that has tried to combine liberty and democracy has discovered. Without Protestantism and its peculiar preoccupations, that strange and marvelous synthesis could never have come into being as it has.

For radical Islamists, as we have seen, democracy itself is a blasphemous act of impiety and must be destroyed.