Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Democracy in America

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

A Fine Balance

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Grace Abbott

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time

American Amaranth

Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral.

The Angels' Footpath

If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains standing - it will be even better.

Marathon

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Herman Melville

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

Peter L. Berger

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Plato

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

Paul Wolfowitz

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Richard Attenborough

In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Robert Bork

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Robert Fisk

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.

Raheel Farooq

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Steven Pinker

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

Timothy Garton Ash

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

Ken Livingstone

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

Lee H. Hamilton