The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.
- Lionel JospinI would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
- Lionel JospinOur great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
- Bertrand RussellHalf a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America `s leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
- Bob RileyIn emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
- Christiane AmanpourIraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
- Harold PinterWhy should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples` democracies.
- Paul RobesonOnly two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
- Warren ChristopherWe have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.
- Tom TancredoDemocracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
- Adam SchiffAnd it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
- Robert WelchWe can see that the scale of change and the pace of change is now in another group of 15 to 25 countries, which are in the process of trying to reach the level of the modern industrial democracies.
- Robert PearsonAll of my novels are democracies.
- Amos OzDemocracies are based on the principle that their citizens participate actively in the decision-making processes of the government.
- Charles RangelDemocracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
- Romano ProdiIt has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
- A. Townsend PetersonThe genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
- Aislinn RyanI do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.
- Al EdwardsIf they can do these things to the most powerful person in the nation, they can do them to you or me. Dictatorships behave this way, not democracies.
- Alana BeardDemocracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
- Alfred Edward HousmanIt is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- Alfred KugalThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
- Alfred KugalThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
- Alfred KugalIt is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- Alfred KugalIn view of China`s growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia`s permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
- Alice BestermanThe three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world`s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
- American CouncilThe purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
- Amy PoppIt is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
- Andy JadosThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
- Andy JadosThe way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford