Collateral damage Quote by Sharan Burrow

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs…

— Shirin Ebadi

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

— Steve Earle

There is a danger in democracy itself.

— Danny Kaye

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because…

— Tariq Ali

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

— Al Gore

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

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

— Akbar Ganji

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices…

— Tony Benn

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the…

— William Graham Sumner

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva