Democracy quotes
46 democracy quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Black Hawk Down
“Do you think if you get general Aidid, we will simply put down our weapons and adopt American democracy? That the killing will stop? We know this. Without victory, there will be no peace. There will always be killing, see? This is how things are in our world.”
“You're the future of the Democratic party. And you always will be.”
- From the movie: Chaplin
“Democracy carries a price tag. And I just happen to think that one of the most misguided promises we ever made was inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. One that I predict will lead this country into all kinds of trouble: Give us your poor, your huddled masses... Now we have to stop this before it goes too far. Our conception of...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Crimson Tide
- From the movie: Alexander
“- Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
- Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in knew worlds.” - From the movie: The Majestic
“- Peter Appleton: I thought this was a democracy.
- Leo Kubelsky: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, they're all just pieces of paper with signatures on them. And you know what a piece of paper with a signature is: a contract. Something that can be renegotiated at any time. Just so happens that the House un-American activities...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: JFK
“What is the future of a democracy where a President can be assassinated under suspicious circumstances while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles? How many more political murders disguised as heart attacks, suicides, cancers, drug overdoses? How many plane and car crashes will occur before they are exposed for what they are?”
- From the movie: Mr. Holland's Opus
“High school is not a democracy. Teachers don't wait.”
- From the movie: X-Men: The Last Stand
“What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?”
- From the movie: Bull Durham
“Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls, it's more democratic.”
- From the movie: Shooter
“There's always a confused soul that thinks that one man can make a difference. And you have to kill him to convince him otherwise. That's the hassle with democracy.”
- From the movie: Wall Street
- From the movie: Tender Comrade
“- Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
- Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
- Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.” - From the movie: The Siege of Firebase Gloria
“- Bill Hafner: How many men you got out there that ain't brain dead?
- Jones: I've got nobody willing to trip over his own guts for the Vietnamese way of life.
- Bill Hafner: I got no delusions about you or your men's democracy Jones. We are gonna refortify this shit hole and protect it like it was your daughter's cherry. I ain't gonna die here.” - From the TV Series: Hitler: The Rise of Evil
- From the movie: Reds
“I think voting is the opium of the masses in this country. Every four years you deaden the pain.”
- From the movie: Mission: Impossible
“We were living in a democracy the last time I checked.”
- From the movie: The Great Dictator
“It's time to make the world safe for democracy.”
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