Carrie Chapman Catt Quotes
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
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Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
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The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.
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Certainly it is not a democracy.
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I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.
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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.
