Democracy Quotes
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We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
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If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.
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Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
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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.
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Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.
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Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
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But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.
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Willie WellsOne of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
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We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
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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.
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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.
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Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.
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Everyone is taking part in the construction of a new democracy.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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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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But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
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Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.
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There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
