Pure Democracy Quotes

#1. The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Lord Acton

#2. A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Noah Webster

#3. Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.

John Jay

#4. America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Mark Levin

#5. The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

#7. The international community can't trust such a government. If the government of Iran wants the international community to believe in what it says, it should try to bring true, pure democracy into the country. The political solution to the energy issue or the nuclear case is democracy in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi

#8. It may be concluded that a pure democracy ... can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

James Madison

#9. Ah, Bluebell, what am I going to do with you?"
Love me.

Sheri Humphreys

#10. But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Abu Bakar Bashir

#11. Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

Douglas Brinkley

#12. To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

Peter Orner

#14. If you're a bird... I'm a bird...

Nicholas Sparks

#15. It's fun when the writers take risk regardless of the reaction that it might get, and that's fun for an actor. You're able to not just play one thing all the time.

Sara Ramirez

#16. The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Noam Chomsky

#17. Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare.

Farshad Asl

#18. Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#19. Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

Paul Klee

#20. The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead a modern democracy.

Alan Dean

#21. The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and people are as tightly controlled within the walls of a corporation as they are in a totalitarian society.

Richard Grossman

#22. RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.

Harmony Korine

#24. French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

Gertrude Stein

#25. I think you ought to let me take poor Tessa into town to get some new clothes. Otherwise, the first time she takes a deep breath, that dress will fall right off her."
Will looked interested. "I think she should try that out now and see what happens.

Cassandra Clare

#26. They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.

Celine Dion

#27. The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

Bernard-Henri Levy