Democracy will be a reality when people will be rightly heard and valued. When in all policy making, in all big or small works, when state and government institutions will be accountable to people by...

Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no industrial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned by unbearably painful crises that made most people wish they could...

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. I believe in liberty, equality and love.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering...

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it

i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality – Long Live Pakistan and Happy...

The stories from Iran’s present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

The right to vote should be considered sacred in our democracy.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.”[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the...

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down...

They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia,

but everybody had reservations. This is part of democracy. If the people do not approve it, we will draft another constitution.

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

featuring a more developed economy, improved democracy, advanced science and education … and higher living standards for the entire 1.3 billion people.

Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt...

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Wir können in diesem Land entweder eine Demokratie haben oder wir können großen Wohlstand haben, der in den Händen weniger konzentriert liegt, aber wir können nicht beides haben.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of...

We are confident the nation will forge ahead toward sustainable peace, progress, full-fledged democracy and national unity.

He thinks he can be an ambassador for democracy around the world. It’s admirable, but also agony for a parent.

On the four biggest challenges he faced — putting Russia on a course toward a pluralistic democracy, integrating Russia with the rest of the international community, respecting the independence of the other CIS countries, and...

democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in...

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We may, but the country of Novels, Etc., doesn’t. In that faraway place, no character...

…I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few…

A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency.

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and...

I’ve handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state....

It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves.

We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.

…Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust...

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of...

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it’s going to be under pressure.

This is why it is so fundamental for us right now to grab hold of this idea of power and to democratize it. One of the things that is so profoundly exciting and challenging about...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia...

If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy — it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic — how we’re...

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the...

We must push for international configuration of multi-polarity and democracy in international relations,

I pray for the day when working men and women are able to earn a fair share of the wealth they produce in a capitalist system, a day when all Americans are able to enjoy...