Democracy Quote by Henry Miller

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are…

— William Borah

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

— Charles Fourier

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

— Michel de Montaigne

The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy.

— Martin Schulz

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

— William Hazlitt

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the…

— David Hume

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

— Hosea Ballou

“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.”

— Graham Moore

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their…

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

The American vice is explanation.

— Gore Vidal

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

— Jill Stein

Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning 'bloodsucking creatures.

— Anonymous