David Pryce-Jones Quotes

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

David Pryce-Jones

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• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Ignorance

• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
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• Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
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• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• 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

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Democracy
  • Media
  • Sure

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• 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

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Government

• If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• 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

• If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Find

• Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Democracy

• We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • World
  • House

• What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Power
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Advantage
  • Companies
  • Lower tax

• He's just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Career
  • Pride
  • Greatness

• It's funny that and the same statement Barack Obama made when he's talking about Republicans and the Iranians, he's talking to Republicans through the television. He said, if any of you are watching this, you need to think about who you're hurting.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Television
  • Republicans
  • Statement

• Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Humble
  • Crush

• Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

  

  David Pryce-Jones
  • Democracy
  • Advantage
  • Paralyzed