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Tag Name "Democracy" (2726)

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The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
Robert A. Heinlein
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... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.
Greg Erwin
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There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
A. O. Scott
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Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.
Fred Reed
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We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.
Glenn Ford
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
A. J. Liebling
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Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.
Robert A. Heinlein
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. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.
Lester Bangs
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The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.
James Bovard
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Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'
Howard Zinn
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
Alice Walker
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Carter G. Woodson
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
Harold Russell
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Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives impedes the implementation of global health policies leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.
Widad Akrawi
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It turned out that [Bill] Clinton had authorized Texaco to illegally ship oil to the military junta [in Haiti] during a time when we were supposedly opposing the military junta and supporting democracy instead.
Noam Chomsky
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As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.
Jane Addams
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That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.
George Lucas
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
H. L. Mencken
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A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
Charles Wheelan
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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
A. J. Muste
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Either we figure out how to keep corporate cash out of the political system or we lose the democracy.
Molly Ivins
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Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Oswald Spengler
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