Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Fish

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Stephen Colbert

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thomas Jefferson

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Vilfredo Pareto

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Russell Brand

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

Russell Brand

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

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.

Yasser Arafat

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

Warren Buffett

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Vladimir Lenin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Walter Cronkite

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

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.

Samuel P. Huntington

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