Classical Democracy Quotes

#1. What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Mary Renault

#2. My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing."
"You mean you went to an expensive school?

Ian Rankin

#3. We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

Moses Finley

#4. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

#5. Love is for life.
Life is for love.
Without love there is no life.
Without life love is not alive.

Debasish Mridha

#6. You've got to admit it takes real genius to start out with nothing and build what she has so brilliantly built. Only

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#7. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

Sherman Alexie

#8. The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

Gail O'Grady

#9. The kiss was yours, Dalinar,' she said idly, pulling open the door and entering his antechamber.
'You seduced me to it.'
'What? Seduced?' She glanced back at him. 'Dalinar, I've never been more open and honest in my life.'
'I know,' Dalinar said, smiling. 'That was the seductive part.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. The characters were not unknown because they were illegal or didn't have the documents but because people didn't want to know them.

Cristina Henriquez

#11. There's only one thing I need." I placed my hand on his heart. "The rest is just details.

Tina Reber

#12. Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

Ben Shapiro

#13. So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

Niall Ferguson

#14. I'm like the Fugitive, running from the one-armed indie-rock community!

Billy Corgan

#15. Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.

Chris Hedges

#16. My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

Youssou N'Dour

#17. Selfless service gives contentment and change the vision of seeing things invisible to others.

Kishore Bansal

#18. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.

Piper Kerman

#19. One: I am proud to say that my vampires do not sparkle.
Two: I feel like in literature that we've gone [this way] towards the kissing vampires side of the needle. I think it's time we go back towards the killing vampires side of the needle.

Seth Grahame-Smith