1220 Democracy Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. Gore Vidal

Democracy Our Scale Highest Form Bribery

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy Thomas Thomas Jefferson System Evolved Something Anticipate Jefferson

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. Theodore C. Sorensen

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life. Tsai Ing-wen

Life Daily Democracy Election Our Just Daily Life

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process. Viggo Mortensen

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. William Blum

Democracy Dictatorship Propaganda Violence

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke

Democracy Minority Citizens Cruel Most Majority Exercising Capable

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Margaret Atwood

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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Chinua Achebe

Leadership Democracy Healthy Morally Participatory Robust Educated Requires Grounded

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy. James Comey

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We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on. Joseph Pulitzer

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Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy. Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Democracy Easy Never Messy Hard

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. Gael Garcia Bernal

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave Flaubert

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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. Helen Thomas

Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges

Government Democracy Statistics Abuse

No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy. Kofi Annan

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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. Michael Moore

Democracy Participate Participatory Sport Ceases Event Spectator

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men. Shirley Chisholm

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Theodore White

Today Politics Democracy Money Pollution Flood

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far. Barack Obama

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