Examples of using "Демократия" in a sentence and their english translations:
Germany is a parliamentary democracy.
Democracy encourages freedom.
is that liberal democracy is broken.
Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority.
Democracy is one form of government.
Democracy originated in Ancient Greece.
Spain has been a democracy since 1975.
Many think that democracy is the government of the people. But the truth of the matter is that democracy is the government of democrats.
like our liberal democracy and our capitalist economy.
but it was nothing like our modern democracy,
Representative democracy is one form of government.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Democracy works when the decision about the evening menu is made by two wolves and a lamb.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
A democrat is, at the end of the day, one who admits that an opponent can be right, and therefore lets them express themselves and allows for reflection upon their arguments. When parties or men feel sufficiently persuaded by their own arguments that they allow the silencing of those that contradict them by means of violence, that isn't democracy.
Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. [...] Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.