Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Our press has too much freedom …. Democracy is a very lovely thing for a developed people.

Free elections are only one part of democracy. Constraint on the power of government and the rule of law and the institutions of democracy are just as important.

Citizens everywhere should be able to choose their leaders in climates free of fear.

Politically, the surest way to ward off authoritarianism is to safeguard the public expression of diverse opinion and the democratic interactions that result.

We completely uphold the right of freedom of assembly. But there is always that important balance between security and freedom of expression in countries undergoing circumstances like ours.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

If democracy is finished, all is lost.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

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

No country is free unless it is democratic.

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

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.

There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.

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

Allow peaceful demonstrations and the next thing you know people will want a voice in running things.