674 quotes found
“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”
“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”
“If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.”
“Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.”
“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”
“In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.”
“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowedeven preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is ...”
“Our forefathers were heroes. But why were they heroes? Because they fought for democracy. They fought for the life and liberty of the Filipino people. They fought for our independence, our freedom....”
“LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.”
“When I was ten years old, one of my friends brought a Shaleenian kangaroo-cat to school one day. I remember the way it hopped around with quick, nervous leaps, peering at everything with its large,...”
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
“. . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he be...”
“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed ...”
“You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.”
“In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.”
“Nothingnot even the US Armymore threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.”
“Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of c...”
“Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine ffentliche Freiheit.”
