Demand Quotes

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.

You demanded silence and I became sonorous.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.