Best True Democracy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.”

People Mean Doe Democracy Havens Feminist Posts Racist True Democracy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.”

Thinking Enjoy Democracy China True Democracy

Author:Simon Winchester

“I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.”

“For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.”

Men Real Country Earth Realizing Democracy Share Achieve Equal True Democracy

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.”

Class Democracy Upper Class Connecticut True Democracy

Book:The official preppy handbook

Source: The official preppy handbook

“Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.”

Doe Law Liberty Democracy Rights Produce Discipline Exercise Bases Guarantees Strict True Democracy

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.”

Men Should May Long Doe Government Spirit Democracy Rights Conscience Motive Priesthood True Democracy

Author:David O. McKay

“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”

Heaven Democracy Talent Goodness Degrees Eternal Scales Distinction Graduates Almighty Everlasting Nobility Patents True Democracy

Author:Catharine Sedgwick

“I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.”

Thinking Way Stills Would Be Courses President Democracy Army Raises Strikes Best Way True Democracy

Author:Gore Vidal

“Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?”

War Language Democracy Willing India Britain Allies English Language Defence Englishmen Unwilling Great Britain Prosecution True Democracy

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”

Democracy India Village Units True Democracy

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.”

Persons Spirit Democracy Claims Aspiration Representing Inconsistent True Democracy

Book:The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words

“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.”

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.”

Mean Democracy Mass Violent True Democracy

Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri

“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.”

“The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious?”

People Ifs World States United United States Democracy Imagine Danger Majority Israel Iran Syria True Democracy

Author:Andre Vltchek

“There is us living the Cuban experience that we believe is ours. We do not believe that it is perfect, but it has been above all counting truly on the people, which is where the origins of true democracy lie.”

People Believe Has Beens Lying Perfect Democracy Counting Cuban True Democracy

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.”

Firsts Democracy First Time Selling Luxury Inflation True Democracy

Author:Robert Orben

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

Real Success Choices Politics Education Democracy Succeed Prepared Voting Democracies Have Choose Wisely Voting And Democracy Elections And Voting True Democracy

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“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

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

Ifs Made Government Differences Voting True Democracy

Author:Mark Twain

“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”

People May Freedom Democracy Judgment Democracies Have True Democracy

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.”

Thinking Men Freedom Democracy Taught Men And Women Every Man Democracies Have True Democracy

Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right.”

People Men Inspirational Courses Views Principles Courage Democracy Growing Honor Exercise Judgment Rewards Devotion True Democracy Profiles In Courage

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.”

Action Individual Music Democracy Groups Expression Integrity Flow Jazz Musical Resilience Elegance Improvisation Subtlety Nuance True Democracy Individual Expression Syncopation

Author:Greg Thomas

“Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.”

Matter Law Justice Democracy Grace Charity Favors Discretion True Democracy

Author:Wiley Blount Rutledge

“The true slogan of a true democracy is not `Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.”

People Helping Government Spirit Democracy Dedicated Slogans True Democracy

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.”

“There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.”

Opportunity Given Voice Responsibility Democracy Heard Being True Taking Responsibility True Democracy Given Opportunity

Book:Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

Source: Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

“To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.”

World Needs Believe Might Winning Causes Democracy Military Example Speech Respect Spread Voting And Democracy True Democracy

Author:Barbara Boxer

“I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.”

World Believe Important Country School I Believe Women Democracy Development Essentials Discrimination Our Country True Democracy

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.”

Men Looks Said Two Self America Three President Numbers Boys Democracy Media Folks Weather Florida Evident Number Three True Democracy

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government.”

“There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.”

Country Able Democracy Citizens Historical Being True True Democracy

Book:Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

Source: Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

“No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.”

Men Want Looks America Fighting White Democracy Lows Raises White Man True Democracy

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?”

Ifs Two Accepting Steps Democracy Genius Equal Moron True Democracy

Author:Leo Szilard

“Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.”

Democracy Duty Vote Democratic Voting Electorate Democratic Country True Democracy

Author:Jay Griffiths

“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.”

“True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights”

Men Democracy Rights Color Skins Originals Creator Enquiry Inalienable Rights Nativity True Democracy

Author:Salmon P. Chase

“Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.”

Form Fighting Struggle Democracy Rights Higher Civilization Equal Peaceful Humanist Equal Rights True Democracy

Author:Leyla Zana

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.”

Term Existence Democracy Strict Democracies Have Social Contract True Democracy

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.”

Voice Democracy Heard Being True True Democracy

Book:Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

Source: Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999

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