Quotes About Threats To Democracy

#1. The greatest threats to Democracy are comfort and apathy.

T. Rafael Cimino

#2. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Billy Graham

#4. We will join our palms together, fingers intertwined in each other, and look at the stars in the night sky!

Avijeet Das

#5. Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

Susan Howatch

#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. Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials,
With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile.
Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger
From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next ...

Sadat X

#8. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.

Stephen Hawking

#9. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.

Penelope Ann Miller

#11. The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

Carl B. Hamilton

#12. Innovation is a question of ambition, and imagination, not a question of investment only.

Pearl Zhu

#13. I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

Katharine Hepburn

#14. A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the Constitution is stable. It is a rock.

John C. Calhoun

#15. In the past year I've learned that love can make you do crazy, silly, stupid, ridiculous things. And the fact that one person can make you feel this way and do those things is amazing to me.

Allie Everhart

#16. When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Barack Obama

#17. This religion that scorned the beauty and goodness of this world was a puzzle to me.

Wendell Berry