Around the world Quote by Mark Danner

“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open…

— Ronald Syme

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it…

— Chalmers Johnson

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

— Dave Barry

In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was…

— Tony Benn

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

— Jamie Dimon

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as…

— Noam Chomsky