Democracy Quotes
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I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
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I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.
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Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
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And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
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We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.
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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
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In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.
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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.
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Democracy is dead in the Maldives.
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We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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There can be no democracy without observing the law and everyone must observe it - that is the most basic and important thing that we all should remember.
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The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.
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The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.
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The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.
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Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
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The general will is always right.
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I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
