2,003 Quotes About Democracy

In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacemaking is a sorry mess, we can only blame ourselves.

Any sensible human being who has traveled a bit around the world knows that freedom is a myth that doesn’t exist anywhere. They would realize that the red lines and different forms of oppression, though change from one place to another, they actually do exist everywhere based on who is in power.

There have always been wars.The peacemakers have to make a living out of something.

I do the equivalent of not voting, I vote third party. I dare to dream.

Democracy is never far from Transparency just like the term Democracy is not far away from explaining what the term Unity means.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

The biggest problem with democracy is that the weight of a vote is not determined by the degree of the voter’s intelligence, ignorance, or stupidity.

My generation heard stories of WWII. These were first-hand accounts of the tragedies, the victories, the incredible losses, and of liberty won. We in turn, pass down these stories, reminding the youth of today that democracy is a privilege, and the price for our freedom came at a terrible cost.

There is nothing more prodigal of wonders than the art of being free ... but nothing is harder than the apprenticeship of liberty.