2,003 Quotes About Democracy

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.

In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.

When the evidence for and against "democracy being the finest system of government yet invented" is weighed, George W Bush is going to tip the scales very heavily against.

It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

In retrospect, these events are discouraging: too many scientists seem to have been in the service of money and power. Too many in the media saw it as their duty to be "neutral" by uncritically reporting every theory, rather than investigating who sponsored them and whether they were backed by solid evidence. Too many government officials seem to have been willing to sacrifice poor fisherfolk on the altar of high growth.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

The effects of lack of democracy and the rule of law is a problem that does not discriminate, whether you are a corporation or a start-up, rich or poor, educated or illiterate, employed or unemployed.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".