Brian Eno Quotes

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

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 the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A republic—if you can keep it.

Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.

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

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

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

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.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

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

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

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Nobody expects democracy to be efficient--individual freedom was the primary purpose of our founders - but it should function at least a little

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

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

How necessary for modern liberty a national representative government is—a representative system comprehending the whole state

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.

We had a revolution 2 years ago, and we see a people moving from a completely authoritarian system into a democracy. They don’t know how democracy works. They don’t know the ingredients of a democracy.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.