Mustafa Akyol Quotes

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

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

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.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

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

Democracy or Anti-Democracy

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.

Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.

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

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.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

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

I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.

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

No country is free unless it is democratic.

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

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

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

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.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.