Nyla Ali Khan Quotes

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

Nyla Ali Khan

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• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• Democracy is the road to socialism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Democracy
  • Road
  • Socialism

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Military

• Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Democracy
  • System
  • Socialism

• Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Women
  • Society
  • Democracy

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Democracy

• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Taken
  • Trust
  • Democracy

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Wonderful

• The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Important
  • Nature

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Two
  • Protect

• Lincoln - they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Democracy

• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right...The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Trying
  • History
  • Party

• To its neocon architects, Iraq was always about empire, hegemony, Pax Americana, global democracy – about getting hold of America’s power to make the Middle East safe for Sharon and themselves glorious and famous.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • America
  • Democracy

• America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Parties

• We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of events. We've found that leads to more interesting storytelling.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Interesting

• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the field of public life, it must be a continuing revolution against proposals that contradict the fundamental principles as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, which was written by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. If we remember that, we will be in the forefront of every battle against the things that are tearing down our society.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Science
  • Purpose

• The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Democracy
  • Protect
  • Kashmir