How Democracy Dies Quotes

#1. 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

#2. He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

Angela Carter

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

Joyce Cary

#4. The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

Robert Zemeckis

#5. Worry about this, worry about that. In the end, you're dead anyway.

Marty Rubin

#6. Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.

Theodore Epp

#7. 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

#8. [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

#9. Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

Kyle MacLachlan

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.

Shelly Crane

#14. The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Anne Fadiman

#15. If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.

W.P. Kinsella

#16. Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.

Mary Childers

#17. 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

#18. Don't call me a loser in front of my mom!

Forrest Griffin

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

Hunter S. Thompson