2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Power to people doesn't mean power, it means responsibility.

Once the citizens take responsibility, politicians will lose their job.

The political men of Greece who lived under popular government recognized no other force to sustain it than virtue. Those of today speak to us only of manufacturing, commerce, finance, wealth, and even luxury.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

Questioning the government is easy, what takes character is to be the solution.

Given that you are prepared to learn, you as a responsible civilian are capable of more change than a hundred boneheaded politicians.

In some African countries, exercising intellectual integrity is a felony. Proving that you can differ with the government on matters law is playing with the balls of a wounded tyrant! Everyone is expected to bend to the utopian vision of these brutes! A professor in these countries must be a menial of a foolish politician while an academic dwarf sits as the attorney at the high table of the nobility! We are no better than human scams!

Politics is civilized when people are civilized.

Patriotism is defensive; nationalism is aggressive. Patriotism is the love of a particular land, with its particular traditions; nationalism is the love of something less tangible, of the myth of a "people," justifying many things, a political and ideological substitute for religion. Patriotism is old-fashioned (and, at times and in some places, aristocratic); nationalism is modern and populist.