Democracy Quotations | Page 4

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy.