Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Herzog

As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.

Walid Jumblatt

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

William Greider

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Voltaire

History is fables agreed upon.

Wilhelm Reich

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

Walter Gropius

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Vladimir Putin

There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.

Vladimir Putin

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

Vladimir Putin

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

Winston Churchill

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Woodrow Wilson

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Wesley Willis

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Samuel P. Huntington

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Samuel Fuller

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Virginia Foxx

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

Van Jones

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Vladimir Putin

In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

Saul Alinsky

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

Robert M. Hutchins

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Youssou N'Dour

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy,

Wen Jiabao

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Wynton Marsalis

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.

Thomas Piketty

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Thomas Piketty

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Rich Galen

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.