Democracy Quotes · Page 173

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

— Margaret Thatcher

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother…

— Yakov Smirnoff

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

— Reid Ribble

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

— Bertrand Russell

“Allison's choice of movie was instantly vetoed, so Allison threw democracy out the window and put it in anyway.”

— Nora Sakavic

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.

— John Ratcliffe

“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn democracy ?”

— Lilith Saintcrow

Science is neither a single tradition, nor the best tradition there is, except for people who have become accustomed to its presence,…

— Paul Feyerabend

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market…

— Peter L. Berger

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to…

— John Stuart Mill

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're…

— Jodie Evans

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we…

— Timothy D. Snyder

In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one…

— Immanuel Kant

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So…

— David O. Russell

...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people…

— Isaac Asimov

Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary…

— James Lileks

As you know, in this democracy, in order to have a healthy democracy, we have to get to the common good. But…

— Matthew Dowd

My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of…

— Scarlett Johansson

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating.…

— Robin Cook

“What is the sum of not recognizing the tremendous need for self reflection of all entities in our times. History repeats itself,…

— Monaristw

The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

— Chuck Hagel

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

— Thomas Jefferson

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

— Christiane Amanpour

While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they're the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.

— Dan Bongino

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

— Thomas Day

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

— Hal Draper

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate…

— William O. Douglas

This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.

— Maxine Waters

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

— Tom Vilsack

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

— Howard Rheingold

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some…

— Woody Guthrie

We are in a phase of democratization. We are constructing a democracy. We cannot construct a democracy with irritants.

— Jovenel Moise