The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy.

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

— Elbridge Gerry

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most…

— Adam Michnik

The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged,…

— Edward S. Herman

Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and even the…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Faced with armed men and women and stuck in theater seats while things exploded right outside, the audience tended more toward terror than analysis.”

— Elliott Kay

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government…

— Annie Jacobsen

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

— Adolf Hitler

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

— Jill Stein

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith