Top 31 Quotes About The Death Of Democracy
#1. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
#2. As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
Derek Magyar
#3. All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.
Bryant McGillns
#4. When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.
William Randolph Hearst
#5. I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in
Cole Porter
#6. The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated ... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
Benazir Bhutto
#7. With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard
#8. Was a glimpse of his cock worth a Mercedes?
Edmund White
#9. My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
Steve Earle
#10. Selfishness from earth to hereafter: Thy pray and struggle, same by thee. Because life committed selfishness in living with the Democracy.
Deh Gel
#11. We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.
Nancy Rue
#12. On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life's learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: Let us be kinder to one another.
Robin S. Sharma
#13. There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#14. And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
Plato
#15. Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
Remi Kanazi
#16. Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
Sol Stern
#17. You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.
Eric Zorn
#18. I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.
Alfred Bester
#19. Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
#20. Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.
Robin Hobb
#21. Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!
Mimi Kennedy
#22. Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
Lewis H. Lapham
#24. You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.
Arthur Blank
#25. I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
#26. With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.
Djemal Pasha
#27. 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
#28. The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.
Jan Dibbets
#29. A graveyard is not normally a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy,
Neil Gaiman
#30. A nation is truly corrupted when having ... lost its character and it's liberty, it passes from democracy to aristocracy or to monarchy. That is the decrepitude and death of the body politic ...
Maximilien De Robespierre
#31. You're strong enough to bear anything, Elli. That's why the stars chose you.
Sarah Fine
