Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

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

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

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.

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

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

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

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

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

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

Only votes talk, everything else walks.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

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.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

The right of election is the very essence of the English constitution.

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

Voting should be the right of the great body of the society…an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.

How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.