2,003 Quotes About Democracy

The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Well we can try to measure democracy, just as you measure temperature with a thermometer, or pressure with a barometer.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.