Asma Jahangir Quotes

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy or Anti-Democracy

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.

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

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

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.

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