Democracy
"The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience."
By : Jerome Nathanson
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
By : Hubert H. Humphrey
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular."
By : Mohandas K. Gandhi
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within."
By : Mohandas K. Gandhi
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"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."
By : Molly Ivins
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"The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941]"
By : Edward Dowling
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
By : Benjamin Disraeli
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"There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
By : Noam Chomsky
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"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust."
By : Demosthenes
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"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. "
By : Walt Whitman
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"Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic."
By : Thomas Babington Macaulay
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"To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house." "
By : Lycurgus
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"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness."
By : Mohandas K. Gandhi
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"Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it."
By : Walter Winchell
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"Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better."
By : Jane Auer:
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