Being honest Quote by Serj Tankian Download Open image “Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.” — Serj Tankian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being honest Benign Democracy Dictator Dumb Honest Sometimes
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
It's very hard to describe an elected government as a dictatorship. — Alberto Fernandez Copy Share Image
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity – and personal integrity, at that – is… — Verghese Kurien Copy Share Image
I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an… — Maynard Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm going to be honest, I would love for Flava Flav to be president. It would bring a lot of excitement to the country. — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was - actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with… — Mike Mullane Copy Share Image
