Demokratie / Democracy Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Demokratie / Democracy:

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries. Rashid al-Ghannushi

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

Manmohan Singh

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

Jim Bolger

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford

Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

Abdullah II of Jordan

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

David Brock

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

Shigeru Yoshida

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Elfriede Jelinek

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

Pat Buchanan

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Rick Mercer

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

Joe Barton

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.

Bulent Ecevit

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Steve King

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Mohamed ElBaradei

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh.

Aleksandr Lebed

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Sophocles

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ronald Reagan

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

James Fenimore Cooper

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Molly Ivins

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

Winnie Byanyima

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mark McKinnon

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Vladimir Putin

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Lee H. Hamilton

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Paul Bremer

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Natan Sharansky

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

Gijs de Vries

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I will protect democracy with my life.

Thaksin Shinawatra

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Bill Moyers

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

H. L. Mencken

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Silvio Berlusconi

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Stanley Crouch