2,003 Quotes About Democracy

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

What happened at the site was a test, and not a simple one, for democracy and a red light on the road to anarchy,

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.

The stakes are geopolitical in nature and I believe that democracies are - people want to live in free societies, democracies are the best way to do that, and that if people see democracies in the neighborhood, they'll demand the same thing.

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Their efforts are a tribute to democracy and an example that difficult problems can be solved peacefully through debate, negotiation and compromise.