We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Democracy; Everyone’s opinion is required! Autocracy; Someone’s opinion is the best! Christocracy; What Christ said is FINAL!

The leaders of other countries are using this fact as a bargaining chip, claiming that until the US brings democracy to the residents of its capital, it can forget about preaching democracy to them.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end...

There’s not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn’t depend in some way on advertising. It’d be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been...

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

[Calling the measure a] serious provocation, … restricts Taiwan’s freedom and democracy, and has a serious impact on security in the East-Asia region.

Based on what our country stands for. We can’t fail to stand for democracy.

[C]apitalism–democracy’s sidekick

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed...

Demokrasi bisa ditindas sementara karena kesalahannya sendiri, tetap setelah ia mengalami cobaan yang pahit, ia akan muncul kembali dengan penuh keinsafan.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

The United Nations cannot impose democracy on unwilling countries, but will certainly help in facilitating democratic institutions when a request comes from any country.

Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most formidable barriers raised by the majority around the free expression of opinion, and,...

I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy,

Millions of Ukrainian hands have built a democracy, and it has stood its test,

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance,...

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater...

Christians – at least Christians in a liberal democracy – have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state.

I already know who won today’s election, … Because this vote was carried out according to regulations, Peru and democracy have won today.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism:...

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this...

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It’s about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.

The real origin of the democratic spirit – and most likely, many democratic institutions – lies precisely in those spaces of improvisation just outside the control of governments and organized churches.

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

I like the noise of democracy.

There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.

Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people,...

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to “mind our own business” when it is convenient, and to think of democracy as a suit to...

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget...

He did not raise anything about democracy or human rights in Malaysia,

Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.

As opposition leader, [Stephen Harper] wrote in the Montreal Gazette in the year before he came to power: ‘Information is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without adequate access to key information about government policies and...

We are a democracy — let’s have checks and balances. Let us have a government of checks and balances.

Multilate. Ha Ha Ha,’ said Nusswan, avuncular and willing to pretend it was a clever joke. ‘Its all relative. At the best of times, democracy is a see saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion....

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

When those who are responsible for the leadership of State begin to move in villainous ways; when they begin to destroy the fabric of what it is that our nation is held together with; when...

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march...

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.

Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”He tells how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because...