Democracy Quotes - Page 39

• I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

  Langston Hughes

  Long, Black History, Answers

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

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• If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  People, Information, Online

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• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, Lunch

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• Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

  Anna Lindh

  Rights, Law, Environmental

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• What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

  Judith Martin

  Desire, Nicknames, Privacy

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• Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

  Alan Blinder

  Public Opinion, Input, Politician

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• My heart beats red, white, and blue.
  And with patriotism it aches
  Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights
  But in particular, cupcakes

  John Walter Bratton

  Believe, 4th Of July, Heart

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• In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Past, America

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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Land, Relief, Development

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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  Barbara Boxer

  Letting Go, Mean, Essence

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• We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

  King Hussein I

  Real, Believe, People

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• Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

  Tatyana Ali

  Democracies Have, America, Slavery

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Eugenics, Everyday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean Girls, Mistake, Iraq

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• We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

  Richard Shelby

  Running, Cutting, Iraq

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• What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

  Dick Gephardt

  Important Values, Two, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Dick Gephardt from Oct 12, 2016

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• I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  Moving, Pressure, Violence

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• Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress is largely complicit. The media is supportive. The public is apathetic. By the time apathy is reversed, there may be little opportunity to restore what was lost without massive effort and pain.

  Stan Moore

  Weed, Pain, Opportunity

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• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Art, Independent, Opportunity

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• The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers from the great tactical liability that anyone who is not specifically for it is eventually forced to oppose it.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Real, Suffering, Communism

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• Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

  Stanley King

  Evil, People, Design

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• One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Taste, Easy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America: Part the Second: The Social Influence of Democracy”, p.16

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• The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Progress, Uniforms, Ancient

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America: Book One”, p.30, eKitap Projesi

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• Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

  Plato

  Idlers, Bees, Drones

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• What you're seeing is a loss of confidence in institutions and their legitimacy because they are not seen as delivering. It's hardly a surprise that it's producing a degree of paralysis. Politics becomes very reactive and it's hard to deal with the bigger issues.

  Jonathan Wood

  Loss, Issues, Degrees

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