Democracy Quotes
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Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.
Widad Akrawi
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Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
Barack Obama
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And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
Christopher Pyne
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Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.
Harry S Truman
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Israel, our great friend and the one true democracy in the Middle East has been snubbed and criticized by an administration that lacks moral clarity... President Obama has not been a friend to Israel. He has treated Iran with tender love and care and made it a great power.
Donald Trump
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
Jair Bolsonaro
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Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.
Ai-jen Poo
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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Mahatma Gandhi
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By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.
Ben Bagdikian
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If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.
William Greider
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The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
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Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
William Collins
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Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.
Elliot Paul
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Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.
Jonathan Powell
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How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
