“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.” — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought. — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
All democracies demand common public education because nothing makes people so much alike as the same education. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“One by one western democracies were rolled up on German terms; Denmark and Norway in April and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think we need to be a superpower of human rights, of support for true grassroots democracy, not corporatist economic development, which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Talk loud enough about human rights and it gives the impression of democracy at work, justice at work. There was a time… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
