Ahmed Zewail Quotes

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Ahmed Zewail

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

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• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

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• Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

  

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• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

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• I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
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• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  

  Harold Russell
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• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

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• Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

  

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• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

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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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• Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

  

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• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

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• My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

  

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• You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

  

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• You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

  

  Virginia Euwer Wolff
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• The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

  

  Margaret Chan
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• Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Democracy