Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

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.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

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

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.

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

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

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

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

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

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

It is the healthiest thing in a democracy when the people who are elected exert power.

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

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.

We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.