Democracy Quote by Jake Auchincloss

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

— Isaac Asimov

People leave because it's easier to walk away than to fight for what they really want.

— Anonymous

“When politicians today invoke terrorism they are speaking, of course, of an actual danger. But when they try to train us to surrender freedom…

— Timothy Snyder

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

— Caroline Lucas

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

— Vladimir Lenin

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

— Omar al-Bashir

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to…

— Naomi Wolf

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

— Richard Eyre

Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it…

— Chris Hedges

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive -…

— Arundhati Roy

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

— Thomas Sowell