This September 15 is the International Day of Democracy, which according to the United Nations, is based on remembering that democracy has to be people-centered. Let’s see then the best phrases about democracy on its international day.
They have been discussed throughout history and are of crucial importance because it has been difficult to establish the foundations on it in many countries of the world. In others it almost does not exist.
Quotes about democracy
Democracy needs virtue, if it does not want to go against everything it claims to defend and encourage. John paul ii
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you can vote before obeying orders. Charles Bukowski
Democracy requires respecting the political rights of minorities. Nelson Mandela
Democracy is the search for a form of government that is based on the spontaneity of the masses, to guarantee the participation of individuals in the objective order of power. Emmanuel mounier
Democracy is a superior form of government, because it is based on respect for man as a rational being. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ignorance does not discern, seeks a tribune and takes a tyrant. Misery does not deliberate, it is sold. To remove suffrage from the hands of ignorance and poverty is to ensure the purity and success of its exercise. Some will say that it is undemocratic but democracy, as it has been exercised so far, has led us to this sad destiny. Juan Bautista Alberdi
Democracy replaces the appointment made by a corrupted minority, by the election made at the mercy of the incompetent majority. George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the need to bow from time to time to the opinions of others. Winston Churchill. the best phrases about democracy
The national state, as a framework for the application of human rights and democracy, has made possible a new – more abstract – form of social integration that goes beyond the borders of lineages and dialects. Jurgen Habermas
There is no sovereign more legitimate than the nation; there can be no more legitimate legislator than the people. Denis Dedirot
The possessing class rules directly through universal suffrage. While the oppressed class – in our case the proletariat – is not ripe to liberate itself, its majority recognizes today’s social order as the only one possible, and politically forms the tail of the capitalist class, its extreme left. Frederick Engels
