If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
For democracy to function properly it requires accepting the absolute right of individuals and groups to campaign against decisions previously taken by… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace.… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I was very sensitized for what went on inside of the East Germans. Obviously, the first thing was that they were happy… — Nina Hoss Copy Share Image
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell Copy Share Image
The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
“In the Social Democratic jargon of the time, the term ‘propaganda’ had connotations that were very different from those it later acquired.… — Lars T. Lih Copy Share Image
The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The way the Democrats try to dispirit everybody and impugn people is basically insult their intelligence. If you're not Democrat, if you're… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats were so critical of what Bush did, the interrogations, the secret prisons, Guantanamo and all of that, and… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Political boundaries in their most physical terms can make or break an election. The manipulation of electoral districts can make them either… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing… — Plato Copy Share Image
We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy,… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
