Democracy Quote by Bill Moyers Download Open image “How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?” — Bill Moyers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Theology Democracy Imperial State Political Protect Protect Soul Soul Soul Democracy States Theology Theology Service
Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“If you want to save America’s soul, consider becoming a minister. If you want to force people to confess their sins and convert, don… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this? — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
“As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the immediate protection… — Alexander Carson Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Religion, by ‘consecrating’ the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State takes the… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to measure the impact on policy of any investigative journalism. You hope it matters to let a little more truth loose… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image