Democracy Dies Quotes

#1. Men and women have served and died to protect American democracy, but their sacrifice will be for naught if that democracy dies from the poison the Supreme Court has injected into our political organs.

Jennifer Granholm

#2. Not everything needs to be fixed

Randy Pausch

#3. 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.

Saul Alinsky

#4. All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

John Gardner

#6. I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

Otto Penzler

#7. I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

Edwin Land

#8. We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

Saint Basil

#9. Most meals, I pay for myself so I can stock up on weeks Aaron goes a little crazy. His therapist calls this enabling. I call it love. She says I'm a problem, and I, for one, have agreed to disagree.

David James Poissant

#10. Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

Gareth Gates

#11. Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I'm yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

Ben Goldacre

#13. You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

Vanna B.

#14. [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#15. Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

Doris Lessing

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

Joyce Cary