Democracies Quotes

143 quotes by 118 authors

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind… — George Bernard Shaw
Lynch mobs are democracies. — Neal Boortz
The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside… — Barack Obama
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile… — Warren Christopher
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and… — Michael Parenti
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. — Romano Prodi
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the 20th century. It… — Stephen Ambrose
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism… — David Horowitz
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case… — D. H. Lawrence
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The tragedy of modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in effecting democracy. — Jacques Maritain
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not… — Chaim Weizmann
The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one… — Denis Fahey
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States. — Annette Lu
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon.… — Jimmy Reid
I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed… — Juan Manuel Santos
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. — Tom Tancredo
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of… — Roberto Unger

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