Demand Quote by Margaret Halsey

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

— Steve House

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

— Azim Premji

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

— Bertrand Russell

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy."…

— Noam Chomsky

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well…

— Aldous Huxley

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a…

— Anonymous

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go…

— Aleksandr Lebed

“In almost every detail, when one examines it closely, it is not Democracy which makes the system work, but the Individual democrats who, in…

— G.M. Mes

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

— Lee H. Hamilton

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a…

— Kathleen Tierney