D Quotes
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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.”
“Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.”
“Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.”
Source: The Remarkable Andrew: The Chronicle of a Literal Man
“Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.”
Source: Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government
“Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.”
“Democracy, let’s face it, was never more than a disguised version of moronarchy … rule by morons.”
Source: Dumbocalypse Now: The First Dunning-Kruger President
“Democracy let you choose to look up or don't look up, even at the end you have your rights, but for the south part of the world looking up is a form of rebellion. Seeing their end could be a light of hope.”
“Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.”
“Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.”
“Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.”
“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.”
“Democracy means decision by those concerned.”
“Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.”
Source: Past and Present
“Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.”
“Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.”
“Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.”
“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.”
“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
“Democracy means non-sectarianism - democracy means non-partisanism - democracy means nonracism. In short, democracy is another name for unity.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.”
“Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”
“Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.”
“Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.”
“Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.”
“Democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens.”
“Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939
“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”
“Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.”
“Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.”
“Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.”
“Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.”
“Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.”
Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government
“Democracy must be our answer to terrorism”
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
“Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.”
Source: Mother Earth Bulletin
“Democracy must learn to defend itself.”
“Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.”
Source: Collected Works
“Democracy needs a moral compass.”
“Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.”
Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989
“Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.”
Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989
“Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.”
“Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.”
“Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations. Even if we do vote, we should just spend less time and intellectual energy on our choices and keep our eye on the ball.”