Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.” — Steven Levitsky 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 do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought. — Asif Ali Zardari 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
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
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
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
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if… — Jonathan Capehart 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
When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left. — Philippe Val 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
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
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
