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Tag Name "Democracy" (2290)

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Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.
Noam Chomsky
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
Russell B. Long
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Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.
Mario Cuomo
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.
Vladimir Putin
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Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.
Sam Levenson
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Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
Walter E. Williams
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Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.
Malalai Joya
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Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
Seneca the Younger
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Democracy is beautiful in theory in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
David Pryce-Jones
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Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.
Debbie Stabenow
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them, explained Revel. It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.
Jean Francois Revel
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
James Russell Lowell
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.
"Doris ""Granny D"" Haddock"
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Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.
Doug Larson
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Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
Jan Smuts
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