Democracy Quotes
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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.
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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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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
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Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.
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In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.
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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
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In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.
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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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I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
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Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
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I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world.
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I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
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We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.
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Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.
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Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
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Everyone is taking part in the construction of a new democracy.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your democracy and do what is necessary to deal with our problems, I think you should be voted out.
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Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.
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My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.
