Quotes of: Democracy Keyword

In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wond...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Democracy in America

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

The Doctrine of Fascism

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

Democracy; Everyone's opinion is required! Autocracy; Someone's opinion is the best! Christocracy; What Christ said is FINAL!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

A blanket could be used to cover Mt. Rushmore. But if you rush more, you’re going to rip the blanket in the same way that the very fabric of our democracy is torn.


Brick

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Hellraiser—Mother Jones: An Historical Novel

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Here Comes Trouble

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Race Matters

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead a modern democracy.

Spaceship Over Vancouver

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

What I Saw in America

We're living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom.

The Witch Of Portobello

We may not have sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, but we do have democracy.

The White Tiger

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

Joe Barton

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to k...

Madeleine M. Kunin

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

Natan Sharansky

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

Peter Bichsel