- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism seemed to be an ideal experiment in trying to achieve a state where all persons have greater democracy. I might add, like other persons here and elsewhere, I found myself concerned with the problem of increasing need for greater economic and political democracy for greater numbers of people.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.
- Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if the Postal Service dies, it will be the end of democracy as we know it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Japan and Australia share the universal values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing negative about a group of people crying out for democracy - and if my voice counts, I will be vocal.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020