2,003 Quotes About Democracy

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

Democracy is a western term for a dictatorship that hasn't come out of the closet.

In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.

LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.

But the heart weakens without democracy, and there was no democracy within the Tigers. They antagonized their own brothers by killing them.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

Warum ist eigentlich das demokratische System besser?... Es ist besser, weil es die volle Entwicklung des Menschen als Individuum möglich macht. Aber... das zeigt nur, daß die Demokratie eine >angenehmere< Form der Regierung ist [...].

Jos kansan ääntä kuunnellaan, ei toivoa ole. Demokratia on kuoleman uskonto.