Charles Bukowski Quotes

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

In a democracy we assume that people can define their own interest and vote that way.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

I’m not allergic to democracy. The only advice I have is let’s give it a different name and keep doing it.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.