Democracy Quote by Pearl S. Buck Download Open image “When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.” — Pearl S. Buck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Stills
Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen. — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do. — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll Copy Share Image
Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image