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Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.


Jim Hightower


#building #culture #democracy #election #event

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.


Daisaku Ikeda


#everywhere #i #i think #incomplete #nature

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.


Daisaku Ikeda


#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.


Alan Moore


#equality #government #misattributed #equality

It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards?" "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?" "What?" "I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?" "I'll look. Tell me about the lizards." Ford shrugged again. "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it." "But that's terrible," said Arthur. "Listen, bud," said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say 'That's terrible' I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.


Douglas Adams


#democracy #ford-prefect #h #humor

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.


Giorgio Armani


#fashion #jeans #represent

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.


Brooks Atkinson


#democracy #each #less #little #save

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.


Richard Attenborough


#democracy #democratic #i #i believe #i believe in

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.


Dave Brubeck


#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.


Edmund Burke


#citizens #cruel #democracy #exercising #majority






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