Quotes by Democracies Have So long, and thanks for all the fish. Douglas Adams dolphinsdemocracies-havelong So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster democracies-havecheertwo Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. Ernst Hanfstaengl democracies-havemilitarypeople As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. Eugene McCarthy democracies-havedifferencesfreedom When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. Eugene V. Debs majority-ruledemocracies-havefreedom The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. Fiona Shaw democracies-havedemocracyrights Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. Franklin D. Roosevelt democracies-havevotersgovernment Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. Franklin D. Roosevelt democracies-havedemocracyambition The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass democracies-havetyrantsfreedom Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan democracies-havefreedompolitical Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw democracies-havefreedomgovernment Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders. George Hamilton democracies-havedemocracy Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves. George Soros democracies-havedemocracypeople Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important thing in a democracy is that it doesn't necessarily have to agree with what America's interests are, and it doesn't necessarily have to be serving American interests. George Soros democracies-havetakenamerica We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made the mistake that a democracy has to adopt America's interests, and that is a contradiction because a democracy basically is people deciding what their interests are. George Soros democracies-havemistakeamerica But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same. Gertrude Stein democracies-havecuttinggovernment You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton democracies-havefreedomorder Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens. George W. Bush democracies-haverunningyears The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. Gunter Grass democracies-havefreedomjobs The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken democracies-havefreedomgovernment«12345678»
