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democracies-have support democracy
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Benazir Bhutto
democracies-have democracy terrorism
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
democracies-have political democracy
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! Allen Ginsberg
democracies-have people decision
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. Abraham Lincoln
democracies-have government security-and-freedom
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. C. S. Lewis
democracies-have government security-and-freedom
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
democracies-have democracy hacked
American democracy has been hacked. Al Gore
democracies-have long criminals
So long, and thanks for all the fish. Douglas Adams
democracies-have democracy united-states
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States. Annette Lu
majority-rule organization people
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion. Adolf Hitler
majority-rule numbers democracy
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature...
majority-rule liberty principles
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. Ayn Rand
majority-rule political minorities
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
majority-rule political politics
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Jefferson Davis
majority-rule cynical wish
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. P. J. O'Rourke
majority-rule tyranny-of-the-majority minorities
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. Thomas Jefferson
majority-rule democracy oligarchy
Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy. Samuel P. Huntington
majority-rule fancy unlimited
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. Robert Ringer
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley