Democracy Quotes
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One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.
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We have to be a democracy and demand certain things even after that individual gets in the White House. All those promises those dudes and women are making on the campaign trail, we gotta make sure those promises come to fruition and that doesn't happen by just voting and letting them get in and then falling back. Nah, you gotta be active. You gotta make your voice heard and be constantly involved in what's going on.
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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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My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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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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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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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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We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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That kind of skeptical, questioning, 'don't accept what authority tells you' attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.
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Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
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We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
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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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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.
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Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
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Democracy means decision by those concerned.
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We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.
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Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
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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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Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
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We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
