Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

If you have an election no mater how free, if you do not have a government that respects people’s rights, you don’t have a democracy.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

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

One of the distinctions between democracy and other forms of government is that while democracy is messy on the surface, other forms of government are messy underneath.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Democracy is more than just having free elections. It's having political structures.

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

A democratic government must always be left free to be operated upon by the will of the majority of the time being. All that the government of the day can do is to ascertain what now appears to be the best principle.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

Democracy is politics.

Free elections are only one part of democracy. Constraint on the power of government and the rule of law and the institutions of democracy are just as important.

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

The Muslim world needs democracy. It wants democracy. But it should be real democracy and not just democracy by name only... Democracy has done some good things. It has saved humanity from despots and dictators who act like gods. The details should be left to the people. Let them decide for themselves

The colonists were struggling not only against the armies of a great nation, but against the settled opinions of mankind; for the world did not then believe that the supreme authority of government could be safely entrusted to the guardianship of the people themselves.