Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kunda Dixit

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Jeff Chester

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Bernie Sanders

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and a concentrated corporate media determining what we see, hear and read.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Bill Vaughan

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

Bertrand Russell

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Helen Thomas

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

Antoine Rivarol

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Alan Lightman

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

David Nicholls

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Ben Jonson

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

John Carney

I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.

Jim Nussle

We're going to work with the committees and see what's doable.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Mayim Bialik

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Fay Weldon

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

John Davies

We can't spend a dime. All we can say is, 'Here are the offices. These people need to be moved.' It's been said before by previous committees and in previous reports. We're just looking for options.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Vanessa Poster

We are always looking for people to fill committees and work on other projects.

Mike Long

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.