Democracy Quotes
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
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I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
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Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.
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Democracy, voters, voting responsibility ... everyone in Vadodara ... the awakening of the voters was very important and I thank and congratulate them.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.
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I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
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Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.
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Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.
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...four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.'
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
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A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.