But democrats are seldom welcome on planets run by totalitarian governments, and scarcely more welcome on planets where anarchy prevails–this is due to the very nature of democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and...

Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.

We’re in a republic, not a democracy. The founders were very careful to say they were worried about allowing people to directly elect representatives.

Had I realized while on Earth,” he said, “that Hell was such a delightful place, I should have put more faith in the teachings of religion. As it was, I actually doubted its existence. A...

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.

One look at the officials in the American Consulate where we went for dreary paper routines was enough to make you realize what was wrong with American ‘diplomacy’ throughout the Fellaheen world: – stiff offcious...

The Impression that Pakistan being an Islamic State is thereby a Theocratic State is being sedulously fostered in certain quarters with the sole object of discrediting her in the eyes of the world. To anyone...

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that...

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker

[N]icht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschiedenen […] sondern durch Eisen und Blut.

Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.

Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself

The Palestinian people should not be punished because they chose democracy.

They (the United States) deal with democracy selectively. If democracy produces the people they want, they will agree and if the opposite, they will not accept.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Together we recovered democracy for Chile. Now I invite you to be a part of another historic moment by electing Chile’s first ever woman president. Let’s make history.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go,...

The fundamental values of a democracy cannot be changed because we are provoked by terrorists.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

… drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those...

I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man.I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of...

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a...

The answer to 1984 is 1776

If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then...

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted–in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist...

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

decisive step in the development of democracy.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

say” that the citizen has in ruling himself is due to the goodwill and the honesty of those to whom he has entrusted the power to rule him.

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted...

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Americans, the eyes of the world are upon you. How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

How does paying people more money make you more money?It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend. Remember, they’re not just your workers- they’re your consumers, too. The more...

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands,

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, ‘Now shut up and obey me.’ People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his...

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she’d invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty...

In diesem Jahr ging es darum, eine Politik zu beenden, für die der Soziologe Ulrich Beck den durchaus bewundernd gemeinten Begriff des »Merkiavellismus« gefunden hatte. Eine Politik, die ihre Ziele nicht benennt und auch nicht...

Sense isn’t democratic. A senseless opinion that’s advocated by ‘the majority’ is still senseless.

He wanted to see how the people [feel] about democracy and the war in Iraq. When he heard my negative response, he decided to take things in his own hands, I guess.

There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it’s through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.

Secrecy begets tyranny.