1222 Democracy Quotes for You to Enjoy

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. Christine Pelosi

Democracy You Vote Equality Speak Value Power Beauty Others Earner Our Minimum Minimum Wage Lies Table Box Wage Ballot Ballot Box American Same Persuade Billionaire Seat Chance

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. Chrystia Freeland

Positive Democracy Positive Results Point Results Deliver Main Majority

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy. Chrystia Freeland

Democracy Writing Journalist Teeth About Cut Societies

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice. Chrystia Freeland

Democracy World Political Become Sector Paradox Consumer Private Intellectual Private Sector Mode Public Much Choice Even Default

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. Chuck Hagel

Freedom Democracy World Value Power Our All Nations Constraint Alliance Shared Understood Expand Expansion Nations Influence Interest Should Means

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.' Ciaran Hinds

Democracy You Will Nation Claim Tell Morals Therefore

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor. Cory Booker

Democracy Endeavor Difficult Participatory Sport Hard Spectator

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy. Craig T. Nelson

Hope Democracy People World Country Imagination Dissolved Kids See Had Up Being Want Grew Which Republic Sudden Grow Grow Up

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. D. H. Lawrence

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. Daisaku Ikeda

Work Nature Democracy Progress Remember Incomplete Think Everywhere Need

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. Daisaku Ikeda

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward. Dalai Lama

Freedom Democracy World Liberty Later Trends Way Backward Individual Individual Freedom Sooner Sooner Or Later Along Go Cannot China

I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis. Daniel Levitin

I have a whole section of a filing cabinet in my office full of ideas. Some are ideas for books or articles I want to write. One is a romantic comedy; one's about my dad's life. I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. There's also a really cool concept for a spy novel. Daniel Lubetzky

Life Nature Democracy Comedy Human Nature Books Relativism Section Moral Some About Write Cabinet Ideas Concept Also Well Got Spy Articles Office Human Want Romantic Romantic Comedy Really Full Cool Whole Filing Novel Dad

There is a danger in democracy itself. Danny Kaye

Democracy Danger Itself

Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship. David Blunkett

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy. David Blunkett

We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights. David Blunkett

Needs Democracy Rights Obligations World Values Understanding Inclusive Responsibilities Run Must Embraces Individual Open Individual Rights Leads Alongside Look Terms Well Still Affirmation Which England Tolerant Britain

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. David Brin

Democracy Citizenry Vocal Only Perform Well Empowered Knowledgeable

When a political advocacy network hires a former CIA analyst and starts tailing save-our-parks activists, you know there's something terribly dangerous happening to our democracy. David Brock

Democracy You CIA Dangerous Political Starts Analyst Our Something Network Know Terribly Advocacy Happening Former Activists

Democracy Quotes

No more democracy quotes