Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.
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Yes, there is a crisis of hunger on the planet, but hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.
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Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.
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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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We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished.
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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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Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.
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President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.
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We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
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Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
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What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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The larger goal of Deep Democracy is not me changing you and you changing me. But we learning how to relate.
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The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
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Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
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Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
