“Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.” DiesGrowsDemocracyAliveDictatorshipLiving Things Author:Saul Alinsky
“I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.” IfsNeedsBelieveHumansProblemReligionI BelieveGrowsDifferencesDemocracyRightsAtheismOne DayCreatingRootsBlameIslamHuman RightsIslamicRemovePermitStemFundamentalismPoisonous Author:Taslima Nasrin
“democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.” GrowsDemocracySkyDangerousBottomBombs Author:Vandana Shiva
“I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.” IfsSometimesGrowsGrowing UpDemocracyMilitaryNormalTreatsMissionsMaturity Author:Guido Westerwelle
“In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.” MayLittlesIdeasGrowsGrowing UpDemocracyPolicyWrong Ideas Author:Ashleigh Brilliant
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.” TurnsGrowsHalfLibertyDemocracyProduceTheoryBirthMassUniversalEncouragementSlaveryRateWitSecureAssuranceDeliberateSuffrageIgnobleUniversal SuffrageBirth RatePopular Education Author:H. L. Mencken
“A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.” GrowsDemocracyWeakStrainOligarchy Author:Aristotle
“After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?” PeopleIfsNeedsChildrenCountryGrowsHalfDemocracyPlanetsIntelligentSensitiveSeatsDriversFragile Author:Alice Walker
“I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.” ThinkingKnowsWayTryingHas BeensPoliticalOpportunityGrowsRoomsDemocracyWorstBattleExcitingConstantActiveAlways TryingBetter WaysPolitical SystemsDemocracies Have Author:Adrian Grenier