It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The good news is the Republicans have started to say the right things about net neutrality. The bad news is we're not… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Where I underestimated the opposition was how willing Republicans in Congress would be to put their short-term political interests ahead of what… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
When I got to the Senate, I started working with Republicans. I think I practically worked with every single one of them,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Republicrat” is a portmanteau word comprised of the names of the two main political parties in the United States: the Republicans and… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For far too long, Democrats have hailed themselves as the party of women. As Republicans, we know their so-called monopoly on being… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
The Democrats are about punishing achievement and punishing success and saying it's unjustified, it's unfair, and it may involve cheating and scandal.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Democrats need to become a 50-state party. You can't have a great party on the West Coast and the East Coast. You… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Silence is not an effective political strategy, and what we do if we silence the public interest, which is so hard to… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“The important thing is that we are participating-whether it's by running, voting, or supporting (financially or otherwise) candidates who make a difference… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way.… — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
“Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“By itself, partyism is not the most serious threat to democratic self-government. But if it decreases government’s ability to solve serious problems,… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
