Narendra Modi Quotes

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

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

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

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

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

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, — the bare existence of such a power, — is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

The debate is ended. Fifty percent plus one vote is all we need to govern this country.

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery slope and those people are put in jeopardy, then we're really in trouble.