Democracy is an egalitarian form of government in which all the citizens of a nation together determine public policy, the laws and the actions of their state, requiring that all citizens (meeting certain qualifications) have an equal opportunity to express their opinion. In practise, "democracy" is the extent to which a given system approximates this ideal, and a given political system is referred to as "a democracy" if it allows a certain appro...
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Organizations in this sector:
- Council of Europe ,
- African Democracy Forum ,
- Association of Central and Eastern European Election Officials ,
- Brennan Center for Justice ,
- Carter Center ,
- Centre for Democracy and Development ,
- Chief Electoral Office ,
- Citizens' Group on Electoral Process ,
- Coalition on Free and Open Elections ,
- Commonwealth Observer Groups
Quotations About This Subject:
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. ,
- Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. ,
- Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. ,
- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ,
- It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. ,
- Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. ,
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ,
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ,
- There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. ,
- I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
