Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA. I have seen the strength of democracy. If there were no democracy then someone like me, Modi, a child born in a poor family, how would he sit here? This is the strength of democracy.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Democracy is good for world peace.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

The army is a poor school for democracy.