D Quotes
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“Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.”
“Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”
“Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
“Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work”
“Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.”
“Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.”
“Democracy is not merely a form of Government...It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards our fellow men.”
“Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.”
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.”
“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed
“Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”
“Democracy is not something we have by divine right. It is a hard-won privilege granted to us by those who came before us and fought for it. These were people who knew the tyranny and injustice of oppressive masters who would deny ordinary people a voice and basic human rights, such as freedom of expression and association. But we forget that democracy requires an active, informed, and engaged citizenry that seeks the well-being of all, not just their gang, in order to thrive.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.”
“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial
“Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.”
“Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.”
“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.”
“Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.”
“Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.”
“Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.”
“Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.”
“Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.”
Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
“Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'”
“Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
“Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.”
“Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.”
Source: Minority Report
“Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.”
“Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.”
“Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.”
“Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.”
“Democracy is people-approved dictatorship.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Democracy is people-approved dictatorship,
Military is people-approved genocide.
Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon,
In conscience-court all guilty of homicide.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.”
Source: In Defense of Politics
“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s knowledge of the world extends as far as sports, sitcoms, reality shows, and celebrity gossip, democracy becomes a very dangerous idea.
Until people are properly educated and informed, instead of indoctrinated to be ignorant mindless consumers, democracy is nothing more than a clever tool used by the ruling class to subjugate the rest of us.”
“Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.”
Source: The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century
“Democracy is pretending to give power to the people, whereas capitalism is pretending not to give the people to those with financial power.”
“Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.”
“Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.”
“Democracy is self-creating coherence.”
“Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."”
“Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.”
“Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.”
“Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.”
Source: Memories and Studies
“Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.”
“Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.”
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”
Source: Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel
“Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.”
“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune