Democracy Quote by Fiona Shaw Download Open image “The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.” — Fiona Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Duty Gone Responsibility Rights
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democracy is a bundle of rights and freedoms wrestled from the powerful. Our rulers only surrender their power when compelled to - when the… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.” — Jerome Nathanson Copy Share Image
Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble,… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'. — Fiona Shaw 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
