Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Cohn

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Karen Armstrong

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

Katharine Weymouth

I dont personally feel that I have to save democracy and journalism.

Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Leonard Cohen

But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Juan Cole

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Joyce Cary

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

Oswald Spengler

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Kami Garcia

Got it. Demon. Death. Doom.

Paul Kagame

Rwanda is a monarchy not a democracy.

John Sayles

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Nick Lampson

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Joseph Stalin

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Noam Chomsky

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Noam Chomsky

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Noam Chomsky

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Noam Chomsky

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

Noam Chomsky

There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word "democracy" - recall that they called what they'd constructed "peoples' democracies." The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called "libertarian" here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that "libertarian," fine; after all, Stalin called his system "democratic." But why bother arguing about it?

Noam Chomsky

The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.

John Ashcroft

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Mark McKinnon

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Nicholas Sparks

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

Nawal El Saadawi

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Neal A. Maxwell

There is no democracy of facts.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Melissa Bean

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.