Democracy Quotes
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Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.
Sun Ra -
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
Vladimir Putin
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And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.
Mike Lowry -
It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.
Silvan Shalom -
This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
Tony Blair -
In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.
Jimmy Carter -
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
Ernst Hanfstaengl -
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.
Simeon Strunsky
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
Michael Sandel -
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.
Elliot Paul -
It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
Judith Butler -
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Charles Frankel -
The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
Noah Feldman
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We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.
Anker Jorgensen -
There is no democracy without journalism.
Scott Pelley -
From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.
David P. Ellerman -
America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
Jimmy Carter -
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
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In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.
Roberto Unger -
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris -
Do you know what's odd and weird and strange - a democracy with a fucking Queen...Piers Morgan, who's a cock anyway...sweaty faced bollix.
Ed Byrne -
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Nicholas Herbert Stern