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| Demokrati er basert på overbevisningen om at det er ekstraordinære muligheter i ordinære mennesker. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| Alla dessa svarta människor förstör min demokrati | Ian Smith (1919-) |
| Demokrati - det enda samhällsskick som kan avskaffas på demokratisk väg. | Gabriel Laub |
| Demokrati betyder att vem som helst kan växa upp till att bli president, och att vem som helst som inte växer upp kan bli vice president. | Johnny Carson (1925-2005) |
| Demokrati betyder styre genom diskussion, där den optimala effekten uppnås genom att man får folk till att sluta prata. | Clement Attlee (1803-1857) |
| Demokrati uppstår när man eftersträvar borgarnas frihet och likhet och tar hänsyn till antalet borgare men inte deras art. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Demokrati är den enda statsformen där fritt meningsutbyte inte slutar med begravning | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Demokrati är den högsta formen för styre, det är baserat på respekt för människan som en förnuftig varelse. | Johann Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Demokrati är det sämsta statsskick som finns. Bortsett från alla andra som provats genom tiderna. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Demokrati är en ovanligt svår styrelseform, eftersom regeringen ska styra ett folk som styr regeringen. | Cole Setters |
| Demokrati är en styrelseform där du säger vad du tycker och gör som du blir tillsagd. | John Gerald Barry (1899-) |
| Demokrati är en tillfredsställande regeringsform, full av omväxling och förvirring, som fördelar ett slags jämlikhet till både jämlika och ojämlika. | Platan |
| Demokrati är ett ord som kurrar meningslöst i tomma magar | Ritchie Calder |
| Demokrati är folkets stat, av folket, till folket. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Demokrati är först och främst ert känslosak. | Arthur Miller (1915-2005) |
| Demokrati är meningslös för barn. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Demokrati: Folkstyre genom folket för folket. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Demokratin får inte gå så långt att man i familjen röstar om vem som är far. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Demokratin är en ärbar och vacker kvinna. Men för att hon ska förbli trogen måste man uppvakta henne varje dag. | Edouard Heriot |
| Demokratins historia visar oss en högst märkvärdig kombination av utopier och myter. | Georges Sorel (1847-1922) |
| Det bästa argumentet mot demokrati är ett fem minuters samtal med genomsnittsväljaren. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Det kan inte vara bra för vår demokrati när de flesta skall sökas och hittas i kolmörkret | Willy Brandt (1913-1992) |
| Det är lika omöjligt att vara lite demokratisk som att vara lite gravid. | Michael Davies |
| En demokrati är en stat där fritt meningsutbyte inte slutar med begravning. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| En demokrati är en stat som legitimerar underkastelsen av en minoritet under majoriteten. | Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin (1870-1924) |
| Hellre demokrati utan socialism än socialism utan demokrati. | Hans Hedtoft |
| Jag har för avsikt att göra detta land till en demokrati. De som är emot det hamnar i fängelse. | Joao Baptista Figueiredo |
| Naturligtvis har demokratin sina olägenheter. Till exempel väljarna. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Rysk demokrati är helt överlägset den amerikanska. I Rysslan vet vi vad valresultaten blir flera veckor i förväg. I Amerika vet de inte valresultatet förrän flera veckor efter att det är färdigt. | Vladimir Putin (1952-) |
| Vi är det mest demokratiska | Fidel Castro (1927-) |
| A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. | A. Philip Randolph (1889-) |
| As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear | Alan Coren (1938-) |
| Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. | Alan Coren (1938-) |
| The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. | Art Spander |
| Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. | Augusto Pinochet (1915-) |
| Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. | Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
| The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| One has the right to be wrong in a democracy | Claude Pepper |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. | Edward Albee (1928-) |
| The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual | Edward Bellamy (1850-) |
| Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. | Iskander Mirza |
| Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner | James Bovard |
| Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. | Joe Chung |
| The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| The southern Democrats are in the saddle and the northern Democrats must tag along as best they may, no matter what ill may betide | John Jacobs Rogers |
| In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. | John James Ingalls (1833-) |
| [Democracy:] An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. | Keith Preston |
| In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today. | Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) |
| To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. | Louis L'Amour |
| While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. | Madeleine Albright |
| Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. | Meg Greenfield (1930-) |
| America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. | Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-1931) |
| Democracy is too good to share with just anybody. | Nigel Rees |
| The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly | Norman Thomas (1884-1968) |
| It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians | Pat Robertson (1930-) |
| In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal. | Peter Blake |
| Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos | Polybius |
| Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge | Robert H. Bork |
| Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them | Robert de Flers (1872-) |
| The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. | Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) |
| So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. | Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) |
| People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway | Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948) |
| Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some | Wendy Kaminer |
| I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. | Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) |
| The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
| There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
| Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa! | Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) |
| Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy | Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) |
| The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy | Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) |
| The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Democracy: The Crude leading the Crud | Florence King |
| The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
| The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people | James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) |
| The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. | James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) |
| With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848 | James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
| In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. | James W. Fulbright |
| The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Democracy is an abuse of statistics. | Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) |
| Democracy is the road to socialism. | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. | Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-1931) |
| In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised | Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) |
| I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both | Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) |
| A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it | Walter Winchell (1897-1972) |
| The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. | Walter H. Judd |
| Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear | Alan Coren (1938-) |
| The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live, and that our own success, to be real, must contribute t | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. | Edward Albee (1928-) |
| In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. | Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) |
| As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Rittner's Computer Law: "Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour." | Don Rittner |
| The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it. | Don Rittner |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything. | Eugene Debs (1855-1926) |
| Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy | Gloria Steinem (1935-) |
| Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. | Gore Vidal (1948-) |
| The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board | Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) |
| You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible. | Harry S Truman (1884-1972) |
| Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. | Jean Baudrillard |
| Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. | Joe Chung |
| A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience | John Dewey (1859-1952) |
| Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| [Democracy:] An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts. | Keith Preston |
| We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Democracy passes into despotism. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them | Robert de Flers (1872-) |
| Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| The world must be made safe for democracy | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Demokrati - det eneste samfunns-system som man kan avskaffe ad demokratisk vei. | Gabriel Laub |
| Demokrati er meninger og anskuelser, ikke formue eller stilling. | Viggo Hørup |
| Demokrati er meningsløst for barn. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Demokrati er misunnelse i politisk funksjon. | Vilhelm Andersen (1864-1953) |
| Demokrati vil si styre gjennom diskusjon, men det virker bare hvis man får folk til å holde opp med å snakke. | Clement Attlee (1803-1857) |
| Demokrati: folkets styre gjennom folket for folket. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Demokratiet er en anstendig og vakker kvinne. Men for at hun skal forbli trofast, må man gjøre kur til henne hver dag. | Edouard Herriot (1872-1957) |
| Demokratiske innretninger setter tyranniske lyster i karantene. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| Diktaturer er enveiskjørte gater. I demokratier er det også motgående trafikk. | Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) |
| Diktaturet fratar menneskene alle rettigheter, mer kan det ikke gjøre. Demokratiet gir mennesket alle rettigheter, men kan det ikke gjøre. | Gabriel Laub |
| I demokratiet finnes ingen politiske vitser. Folk gjør seg ikke lystige over seg selv. | George Mikes (1912-) |
| Man kan si mye om diktaturene. Men bare i demokratiene. | Otto Ludwig (1813-1865) |
| Når et demokrati dør, dør det ikke av mangel på lover, men av mangel på demokrater. | Dieter Lattmann |
| Selv det stolteste krigsskip kan senkes av en torpedo, men ingen torpedo kan få bukt med den tømmerflåte som er sammensatt av et demokratisk livsfellesskap. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) |