Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

Jacques Chirac

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

James Buchanan

I like the noise of democracy.

Isaac Asimov

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Elon Musk

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Jeff Cooper

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

George Will

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

George Will

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

Jim Hightower

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Jerrold Nadler

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Jill Flint

Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

Jean Chretien

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Christopher Lasch

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Christopher Hitchens

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

Fran Lebowitz

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

George Pataki

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.

George Orwell

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

George Montgomery

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Christine Lagarde

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

George Soros

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

Gail Sheehy

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

Frank Gehry

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Ferdinand Marcos

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Fareed Zakaria

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

Francis Bacon

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Grover Norquist

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

Ian Mckellen

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Hugo Chavez

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.