Democracy Quotes
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If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.
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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
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It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
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I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
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Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
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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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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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Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.
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Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.
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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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But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.
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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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The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
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I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?
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We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.
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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 new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
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Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
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I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy.
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
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China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation.
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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.
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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 Islamists started this war. They explained to us as clearly as General Giap and Ho Chi Minh explained to us why they were fighting us, and we have ignored it. Mrs. Clinton has ignored it, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama. The idea that they're attacking us because of our culture is insane. We are now waging a war against them culturally. We're trying to impose democracy, women's rights, parliamentary systems on a people who don't want it. They're going to fight that.
