Quotes About Spreading Democracy

#1. Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Annette Lu

#2. We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.

Atticus Poetry

#3. Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.

F. Sionil Jose

#4. If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right to do it. But it's not going to do anything about the climate. And it's going to cost, there's no doubt about that.

John Christy

#5. I'm not your boyfriend, Isabelle," he called out.
She went white, Simon was horrified by how badly his words had come out.
"I mean, I can't be your boyfriend, Isabelle," he said. "I'm not him
that guy who was your boyfriend. That guy you want.

Cassandra Clare

#6. The stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own

Mary Oliver

#7. Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Jane Urquhart

#8. My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Sienna Miller

#9. We're still waiting on the lab work."
"It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?"
Dorn popped an eyebrow. "Good eye. You in forensics?"
"Not really." He had killed a lot of people with shotguns.

Scott Hawkins

#10. And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those who 'objectively' endanger it by spreading mistaken doctrines. In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought.

George Orwell

#11. A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

#12. Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Herman Kahn

#13. Surrender, but don't give yourself away

Rick Nielsen

#14. I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.

Loretta Napoleoni

#15. 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I'm finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.

Terry Goodkind

#17. Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Denis Leary

#18. Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Rahul Gandhi