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Democracy Quotes by Bill Moyers
- Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important…
- How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
- I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how…
- Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
- The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
- An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in…
- You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
- Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person,…
- When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
- Democracy works when people claim it as their own
- Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows…
- America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and…
- The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well…
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood