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Tag Name "Democracy" (2727)

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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
Benazir Bhutto
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democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
Anne Stevenson
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Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.
Mortimer Adler
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
Edward Abbey
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce
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As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.
Jane Addams
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I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.
Natalie Portman
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
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Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes
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We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.
Joshua Wong
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[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole a communication and concert results from the form of government itself and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
James Madison
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Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
Harry S. Truman
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Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
Randal Marlin
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The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
Lord Acton
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Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.
Frank Prochaska
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Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.
Annette Lu
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A democracy is more than a form of government it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
John Dewey
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Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Joichi Ito
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No one can deny that some Islamist groups have credential and popularity. But that does not mean they are a majority. If we are serious about democracy we cannot blame the people for choosing what they want. We must promote the kinds of procedures and processes that are helping the people move ahead.
Tariq Ramadan
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Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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We need efforts to integrate the nation, not divide it. The 2014 elections is about voting for India. It is to decide what kind of India we want to create. So Vote for India. Neither for a person, nor for a party, let us Vote for India.
Narendra Modi
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In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
Gerald R. Ford
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood
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