Niels Bohr
PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century
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4.4 · 52 votes · 144 reads
Tony Blair
PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century
4.4 · 36 votes · 171 reads
4.0 · 31 votes · 183 reads
- Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
5.0 · 64 votes · 45 reads
- Democracy must learn to defend itself.
4.1 · 58 votes · 1 reads
- I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.
David CameronPoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century
3.7 · 52 votes · 32 reads
- Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William JamesPhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century
3.3 · 41 votes · 145 reads
- The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
4.6 · 60 votes · 104 reads
- We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Larry PageBusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century
3.6 · 62 votes · 22 reads
- Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor
Bill GatesBusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.3 · 41 votes · 120 reads
