Blood Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

— Augusto Pinochet

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If democracy is finished, all is lost.

— Mamata Banerjee

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

— John Adams

After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.

— Robert Dallek

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

— Aneurin Bevan

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

— Barack Obama

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

— John Langdon-Davies

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

— Russell B. Long

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

— Marian Wright Edelman