En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

I was thinking about honour. It’s a thing that changes doesn’t it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we’d laugh. There must have been...

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular...

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

Democracy fascinates me.

And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve...

I really am a pessimist. I’ve always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It’s something essentially splendid because it’s not at all routine or automatic. Fascism...

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on...

Dalam jangka waktu lama, Indonesia hidup dalam bayangan feodalisme. Tetap neofeodalisme Soekarno lebih jahat dan lebih ganas.

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common...

Democracy is not here any more.

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don’t life or approve of.

The students had a ‘textbook definition’ understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Ainsi donc, en s’alliant à un pouvoir politique, la religion augmente sa puissance sur quelques-uns, et perd l’espérance de régner sur tous.

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don’t have to listen.

For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

There are great reasons to celebrate. This is a gigantic step toward the recovery of democracy and liberty.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values… it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.Now I may be opposed to abortion...

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c’è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un’aberrazione in un...

These are all the basics of democracy.

What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make...

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of “most successful organization in modern history,” you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States.In its earliest...

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

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would...

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

The Bush rhetoric about democracy has little to do with Washington’s actual policy goals in the Middle East.

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on...

This means that democracy will not exist and dictatorship by foreign powers with their puppet governments will be the system of the world.

There is no democracy in physics. We can’t say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers...

[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life,...

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of...

To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.