- 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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think NRA members are bad people at all. I think they're responsible gun owners that want to become politically active and make their voices heard in this democracy.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
- Cognizant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020