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Tag Name "Democracy" (2727)

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In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.
Norman Thomas
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The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
Byron Dorgan
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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.
D. H. Lawrence
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kevin Spacey
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You may hate Hillary Clinton and you may have good reason for hating Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton is one person who even if she's elected will be gone one day and you still have the task of keeping American democracy going.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo
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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
Jimmy Carter
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People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.
Mark Thomas
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Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.
Daniel Hannan
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I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
Bayard Rustin
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You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.
Michael Scheuer
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I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.
Juan Manuel Santos
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Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
Mahatma Gandhi
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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
Herbert Croly
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'Colonialism' and 'democracy' are two contradictory terms. In order to be 'democratic' a country has to be free. Right now, Indonesian people are slaves: of the West and of their local elites.
Andre Vltchek
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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
Benazir Bhutto
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The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.
Adolf Hitler
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Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
Vilfredo Pareto
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[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.
L. Neil Smith
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
Jack Layton
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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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