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"I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
Quote by -E. B. White
"We consider free press to be an essential element of a healthy democracy."
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"expanding economic opportunity and democracy (and) respect for the rule of law."
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"We're very disappointed that Pakistan has taken another turn away from democracy rather than as we had hoped a step towards democracy,"
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"There is no logic to supporting the King. He has done a travesty to democracy."
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"We congratulate the people of Yugoslavia on their commitment to democracy."
Quote by -Richard Boucher
"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."
Quote by -Friedrich Engels
I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.
Quote by -Langston Hughes
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.
Quote by -Woody Allen
“Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Quote by -Mahatama Gandhi
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Quote by -Madeleine Albright
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
Quote by -Vivienne Westwood
It suffices here to say that the planned economy which the advocates of dictatorship wish to set up is precisely as socialistic as the Socialism propagated by the self-styled Social Democrats.
Quote by -Ludwig Von Mises
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting"
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“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 to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude to the men who had courage and magnanimity enough to serve them at the peril of their displeasure.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton