Agnes Repplier Quotes

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.