Nayan Chanda Quotes

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

Building a democracy was not that difficult because we had a tradition of tribal consultations.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

The American system is no longer a democracy. Democracy is based on accountability and it's not there now.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

All of us today are learning democracy. We are only now forming a political culture.

A constitutional democracy like ours is perhaps the most difficult of man's social arrangements to manage successfully. Our scheme of society is more dependent than any other form of government on knowledge and wisdom and self-discipline for the achievement of its aims. For our democracy implies the reign of reason on the most extensive scale.

Democracy does not mean perfection. It means a chance to fight for improvement.

Democracy can be defined in many different ways. This is one reason why there have existed so many varieties of -democratic- states in the world

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarized republic

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

Once confined to a handful of wealthy countries, it [democracy] became, in a short period of time, the most popular political system in the world. In 1900, only 10 countries were democracies. By mid-century, the number had increased to 30…. By 2005 fully 119 of the world’s 190 countries had become democracies.

Democracy is not a serial autocracy with each new autocrat being selected by a free and fair election.

Democracy is a process that doesn't march in lock step.

Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.