Elie Wiesel Quotes

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

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

I've always lived in a democratic society.

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.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

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

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

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

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.