Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination – these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

It’s in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly,...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than...

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless decree. These young smart alecks see it, and they immediately imagine some fatal result and come running to...

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both

A man is born; his first years go by in obscurity amid the pleasures or hardships of childhood. He grows up; then comes the beginning of manhood; finally society’s gates open to welcome him; he...

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it’s order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and...

We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into...

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there’s organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren’t organized.

Vox populi vox Dei

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I collect collectivisms. I’ve already got socialism and communism, and all I need is fascism to complete the set. I’m looking to trade my dusty democracy, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in a deal at...

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…””You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?””No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having...

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state’s power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin...

I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all due respect to the governor here, that I doubt seriously that he will do — cannot do — anything. And...

[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

As for democracy and the political process in Iraq, isn’t there democracy in Germany? And yet is the Nazi party allowed back?

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and...

Our demand is democracy we accept and welcome [American] support. But only in accordance with the interests of Kurdish people.

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn’t.

Democracy is the best revenge.

When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests...

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

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.