Socrates Democracy Quotes

#1. They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

Peter Mayhew

#2. Socrates learned to his cost, the true nature of democracy is to encourage corruption and excess in all its forms. But the

Philip Kerr

#3. When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

John Hughes

#4. What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Mary Renault

#5. Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.

Stephen Richards

#6. The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically , as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

Northrop Frye

#7. I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.

Joe Arpaio

#8. They found it hard to imagine the smog-choked cities of the Twentieth Century, and the waste, greed, and appalling environmental disasters of the Oil Age.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Frederic Bastiat