Chalmers Johnson Quotes

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a powerful person who believes in concentrating power, No, you do not. If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

My experience and what scant understanding of politics I possess have convinced me that our peoples will only find well-being under compulsion; but my repugnance for compulsion is so great that I am loath to employ it even to achieve their well-being.

The army is a poor school for democracy.

Where nationalism is the main issue, the demand for democracy always takes second place.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.