Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus -
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.
George Will
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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury -
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov -
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.
Cecily McMillan -
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.
Petra Kelly -
I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
Rashid al-Ghannushi
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Liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and stop. You do not do that. Liberty and freedom and democracy are prizes awarded only to those peoples who fight to win them and then keep fighting eternally to hold them
H. W. Brands -
What we want to see is the development of human rights and greater democracy, not just because it is our system but because we think that's the best way that economic and political development go hand in hand.
Tony Blair -
The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
Stephen Covey -
What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.
Theresa May -
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.
Hillary Clinton
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Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Shirley Chisholm -
Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
Joyce Cary -
Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
Molly Ivins -
Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.
Eve Ensler -
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
Steve Earle -
In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
Stuart Symington
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There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Hillary Clinton -
Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. -
Democracy must learn to defend itself.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.
Evgeny Morozov