Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.

Jayseth Guberman

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jesse Jackson

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

A. J. Liebling

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Edward Snowden

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Debbie Stabenow

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Karl Kraus

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Alan Dershowitz

Coach Boone: This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

Remember the Titans

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

James Connolly

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Ann Richards

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

Angela Davis

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Azim Premji

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Charles de Secondat

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

Whether it's 'Veep' or 'Homeland' or 'The West Wing' - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Kevin Spacey

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

William Greider

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

Wynton Marsalis

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Democracy in America