Democracy Without Opposition Quotes

#1. You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.

Nadine Gordimer

#2. Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

Poul Henningsen

#3. You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Anwar Sadat

#5. To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#6. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Liu Xiaobo

#7. Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking.

Henry Eyring

#8. 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

Tatiana Maslany

#9. Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

John Acton

#10. This is an election where there is a tea seller from the Opposition, and to defeat him, everyone has come together. They say Modi should not come. This is because those who looted the nation know that after 16th May what is going to happen.

Narendra Modi

#11. She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert.

Anne Lamott

#12. One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

Audre Lorde

#13. I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.

Bon Scott

#14. Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Michael Stipe

#15. We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

Pallam Raju

#16. I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

Susie Bright

#17. I am sure my love's more ponderous than my tongue.

William Shakespeare

#18. Step one to preventing PPD is to find time to sleep after giving birth, no matter how euphoric you feel.

Ina May Gaskin

#19. I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

Gloria Steinem

#20. When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end.

David Mitchell

#21. Bone always outlasts feather

Robert Holdstock

#22. In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

Martin Van Creveld

#23. A lot of the roads, bridges, railways, and such are built through the use of forced labor, and that is causing the people great suffering. What we put into this in the form of human suffering is not worth what comes out of it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#24. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.

John Dunn

#25. In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

Walter Lippmann

#26. The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

H.L. Mencken