#democracy

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#away #blood #bombs #calls #democracy

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem. ↗

— John Sayles

#argument #been #bush #comes #democracy

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#body #called #democracy #people #possessed

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#duty #gone #meaning #only #remain

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #form

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #incompetent

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#democracy #endure #god #long #will

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deeply #democracy #devised #dying #ever