A Quote by Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Helen Thomas

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Helen Thomas
American - Journalist
August 4, 1920 - July 20, 2013

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Helen Thomas

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

Dalai Lama

Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

Malalai Joya

I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.

Gordon Brown

How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

Michael Moore

We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

Baba Kalyani

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

Melvin Van Peebles

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

Tahereh Mafi

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Zedong

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Leonard Ravenhill

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Kevin Keegan

Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.

Augusten Burroughs

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Diane Abbott

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