D Quotes
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“Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.”
“Democracy is like spider web. If any negligible right decision falls into them they entrap it. But big wrong decision break through & escape it.”
“Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.”
“Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.”
“Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.”
“Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.”
“Democracy is moral before it is political.”
“Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.”
“Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water.”
“Democracy is more than a ballot box.”
“Democracy is mostly associated with mediocrity.”
“Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.”
“Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.”
Source: Perpetual Peace
“Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.”
“Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.”
“Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.”
“Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.”
Source: The American cause
“Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.”
Source: The American cause
“Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.”
Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.”
“Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.”
Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.”
“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".”
“Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.”
“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.”
Source: The House of Commons at Work
“Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.”
“Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.”
Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist
“Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.”
“Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.”
“Democracy is not a shouting competition!”
Source: U-Day
“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.”
“Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change
“Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4
“Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.”
“Democracy is not about one party dominating.”
“Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.”
“Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.”
Source: Superpatriotism
“Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.”
Source: Past imperfect
“Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.”
“Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.”
“Democracy is not an instant coffee.”
“Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.”
“Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.”
“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.”
Source: The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America
“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.”
Source: The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America
“Democracy is not enough because it is never really Democracy. The -ism that will fix this has not been written down because it exists in what remains of the world beyond us and we cannot read that language. So we are left with flawed ways of thinking, mechanical ways, that work against the very organic nature of our brains. We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“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.”
“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.”
“Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.”