Democratically Controlled Quotes & Sayings

This was Darian One Sterling.
A murderer. And my childhood friend. — Shannon Duffy

For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need. — Alex Callinicos

I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls. — Malala Yousafzai

Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel. — Nancy Carpentier Brown

If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own. — Sherman Alexie

You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done. — Vimala Thakar

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now. — Robin Hobb

Salvation is not about going to Church but going to Christ — Osunsakin Adewale

I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything outer and inner a deep spiritual brotherhood. — Rajneesh

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. — Ernest Hemingway,

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour. — Taylor Momsen

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch ... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master. — Aristotle.

Each time someone dies, a library burns. — Jandy Nelson