Democracy Quotes

The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them. Jacob Weisberg
Life Needs Democracy Country Important Our Would Would-Be Unthinkable Know Most Without Exist The Most Important Them Newspapers Need
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. Jacob Zuma
Democracy Change Experience Result Crime Poverty Criminality High Must Rates Through Develop Had Countries Pass Always Regime Apartheid Multicultural Now Fundamental Fundamental Change Necessarily Phase
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy. Jacques Verges
Democracy People Lawyer Duty Every Think Everybody Point Step Him Normal Discuss Office Accusation Accused Right Defend Defended
Discrimination will impair democracy. Jaggi Vasudev
Democracy Will Impair Discrimination
Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged. Jair Bolsonaro
Life Food Democracy Walk Ability Table Without Real Getting Plan Your Mugged Street
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. Jalal Talabani
Democracy Will Our Those Seek Open Renounce Genuinely Always Nascent Accommodation Door Who Peaceful Violence
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. Jalal Talabani
Democracy Fight Unless Unlike Generous Survive Dictatorships Forgiving Cannot
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. James Bovard
Government Democracy Law Myth First Back Rule Rule Of Law Restore Cage Well Another First Things Falling Stop Place Thing Things
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. James Buchan
Democracy Liberty Islam Muslim Individualism Likewise
As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning. James Comey
Democracy Strong Digital Will Become Think Our Our Lives Criminals Spies Logic Concerning Terrorists Covered Encryption Very Process Place Should Therefore Including Lives Utterly
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent. James Connolly
Democracy Power Victim State Enter Only Industrial Without Behind Union Serpent
It 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. James Fenimore Cooper
Democracy Law Tyranny Men Masses Opinion Exhibit Substitute Form Vice Which Public Public Opinion Usual
A band is not a democracy: It's show business. James McBride
Democracy Business Band Show Show Business
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. James Russell Lowell
Democracy Mind Manners Weapons Only Always Been Effective Against
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell
Government Democracy Man Oppressor Own Every Gives His Form Right Every Man
In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power. James Wolfensohn
Democracy You Power Lose Still Right
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. Jan Koum
Freedom Democracy You Freedom Of Speech Country Become State Kid Kind Totalitarian Totalitarian State Eavesdrop Nobody Come Escaped Where Should Right Speech
Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy. Janet Reno
Angry Democracy People Law Will Unless Alienated Out Some Feel Come Issues Left Cohesive
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg. Janet Suzman
Democracy You Evil Back Air Airport Johannesburg More Go Any Oxygen Land Breathe Now Actually
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy. Jann Wenner
Democracy Seriously Important Believe Think Objectivity Facts Taking Journalism Stuff Discourse Very Effort Regard Public Public Discourse Much Such A Thing Serious Thing
A free and open Internet is essential to our democracy, economy, and modern way of life. Jared Polis
Life Democracy Internet Free Our Way Open Economy Modern Essential
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. Jaron Lanier
Democracy Problem First Design Software Side Tools Way Seductive Web Data Tend Support Supportive Provide Foremost Effect Basic Designed Phenomena Gather
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions. Jason Isbell
Great Democracy You Vision Better Sometimes Band Own Write Songs Know Great Thing Make Tie Rock Got Rock-N-Roll Lot Hands Roll Decisions Certain Your Thing Amount
If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters. Jason Kander
Democracy You Election Will Our Way Respecting Part Voters Call Go Get Your
The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy. Jason Katims
Democracy Some Writer Environment Feel Come Form Room Really Should
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. Jay Inslee
Democracy Will Power Addiction Ability Gives Princes Greater Spread Oil Break Which Much Help Need
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