Democracy Quotes
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Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.
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Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.
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The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.
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Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.
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Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
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The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
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The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
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I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
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If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
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Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
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Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
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Democracy is dead in the Maldives.
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Democracy cannot thrive without freedom of the press.
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What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.
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For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.
