Democracy Quotes
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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.
Sigmar Gabriel
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Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent, and I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
Christopher Pyne
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.
William J. Murray
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
Fisher Ames
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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.
Arnold Mindell
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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.
Richard Parks Bland
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Democracy means decision by those concerned.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
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You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.
Michael Scheuer
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We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
Hillary Clinton
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The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade relations and promote democracy and human rights, united by shared values.
Douglas Alexander
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Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.
Joseph Nye
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I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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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.
Arthur W. Page
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
Joyce Cary
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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.
Margrethe Vestager
