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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Edward Albee
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We have to ensure that it is structured organically, so that it functions like a person functions internally, like the organs function... First in the examination of the matter. Secondly in that one develops a concept of.... a social order that have never existed before. That simply means: to realize freedom, democracy and socialism – free democratic socialism.
Joseph Beuys
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The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.
Richard Weaver
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Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.
Ronald Reagan
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Today, the country barely grows by 1 percent a year. Inflation is intolerable. Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.
Jair Bolsonaro
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Democracy and liberty only exist when your armed forces want them to.
Jair Bolsonaro
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Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. (for democracy) In Britain, the road to (democratic government) took seven centuries to traverse.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Meanwhile, on the topics of most concern to people and raised by the students—such as corruption, government transparency, democracy, rule of law, and public scrutiny of government—we needed to take active measures.
Zhao Ziyang
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We have no constitutional authority to police the world or involve ourselves in nation building, in making the world safe for our style of democracy. Our founders advised against it and the early presidents followed that advice. If we believe strongly in our ideals, the best way to spread them is to set a good example so that others will voluntarily emulate us. Force will not work. Besides, we do not have the money.
Ron Paul
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Times had changed, and we needed to change this mentality to coincide with the trend of democracy and rule of law.
Zhao Ziyang
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Is the problem here lack of access to clean water? No. Is it starvation? No. Is it laziness? Definitely not. No, it's poverty due to lack of growth, due to lack of reform. Everything else is just a symptom of that. In fact, even the biggest horrors - famine and war - have political causes. No democracy has ever been afflicted by a famine, and no two democracies have ever made war on each other.
Africa has been subjected by socialism, gangster rule and protectionism. Africa has not been too globalized; it has been too marginalized.
Johan Norberg
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I also felt that if the student demonstrations could be resolved along the principles of democracy and law, through dialogue and an easing of tensions, it could possibly boost China's reform, including political reform.
Zhao Ziyang
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In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create public opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.
James Fenimore Cooper
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The American system is said to be 'designed by a genius for the operation of the stupid'. A bad system makes a good person behave badly, while a good system makes a bad person behave well. Democracy is most urgent; without it there is no sustainable rise.
Liu Yazhou
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In the coming 10 years, a transformation from power politics to democracy will inevitably take place.
Liu Yazhou
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A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.
Zaman Ali
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I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
Daniel Suarez
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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Our passionate adherence to democracy and freedom is based on the spiritual recognition of the Divinity of man. We are not only not communal but we are nationalists and democrats. The Anti-Fascist Front must extend from the English Channel to the Bay of Bengal.
Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee
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We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.
Raj Patel
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Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.
Janet Poppendieck
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Aneurin Bevan
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One foundation for the future of American democracy is a sound administrative system, able to discharge with competence and integrity the tasks laid upon it by the people. The present system is far in advance of that which sufficed in 1925, but its improvement has no more than kept pace with the added responsibilities heaped upon it.
Leonard D. White
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What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth...
Stephen Fry
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