Amartya Sen Quotes

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

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

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

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

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

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

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.

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

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

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

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

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

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.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

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

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

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.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

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