Democracy Quotes
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
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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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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values.
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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.
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The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
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Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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I feel like it is a dictatorship instead of a democracy.
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
