2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Politicians are the conductors of society and the citizens are the musicians, only when they work together, can they produce beautiful music, otherwise, there’s only noise.

A know-it-all politician is far worse than a foolish politician.

The biggest threat Parliament faces is democracy. It's been a necessary evil for centuries, and for the most part we've been able to use it to our advantage. But one fucking referendum later and it's like someone gave a loaded gun to a drunk toddler.

Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.

The challenge lies in escaping the triangle of social democracy, anarchism, and Leninism, and moving on to something “higher” (read, other) rather than declaring two of them dead and idolizing the third.

Unutma arkadasim (forget not my friend), enemy of secularism is enemy of the people, for enemy of secularism is enemy of progress.

Politics should be for people, politics shouldn't be for politicians.

Call it whatever you like - the force is one and the same - the force of love. In religion it's called holiness - in philosophy it's called humanism - in politics it's called secularism.

The Greeks would have found nothing democratic about our parliament, which fights popular scrutiny tooth and nail and where failed ministers, at the end of their term of office, far from being held to public account, are waved off to the House of Lords.