Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

Lee Harvey Oswald

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

Michael Bennet

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Matt Dillon

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

Melissa Etheridge

Only if you empower the liberals, if you empower the moderate socialists, if you empower all factions of society, only then will extremists be marginalised.

Mohamed ElBaradei

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.

Mo Ibrahim

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Mike Peters

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Mercedes Ruehl

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Nikki Sixx

Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives.

Nolan Sotillo

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

Pope Francis

The destiny of our society is yours to make and you have a vastly greater importance to the world than we do.

Polykarp Kusch

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

Phil Ochs