Democratic Freedoms Quotes

#1. A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Lee R. Raymond

#2. Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.

Bernard Crick

#3. In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#4. Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies.

Patrick Mendis

#5. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society ... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

#6. I've never kissed anyone who talked so much about kissing," I told him.
Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct."
"Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, inscrutable and generally send mixed messages.

E. Lockhart

#7. Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

Simon Winchester

#9. Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Bill Johnson

#10. I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.

Eric Ladin

#11. It's safe to tell us stuff, okay?"
This means it's not safe to tell them anything.

A.S. King

#12. He will always be my Sir Galahad.

Ava Gardner

#13. Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why?

Helen Fielding

#14. Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

Peter Brooks

#15. The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Emanuel Celler