Democracy Quotes
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.
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The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.
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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
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The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
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Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
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The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.
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The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.
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After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.
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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.
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Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
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The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.
