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Democracy Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Intelligent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.
- Orange
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.
- Despondency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BJP has decided that politics is for values and ideals, and for this, an age limit has been decided. I think that for democracy and for political parties, this is a good indicator. It will be good if all the political parties adhere to this, thereby strengthening India's democracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who respects democracy has to keep in mind that never in this country was a separate state carved out without a resolution being passed in the assembly.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
- Greatest Threat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.
- Help Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.
- Inequality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
- Socialism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
- Fragment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.
- Faults
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It's more like MMA.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an exciting time in the world - democracy, in all its different shapes, is rolling around to new countries all the time. To have a chance to shape the democracy in my home country is an honor.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to thank the WBC and its president, Don Jose Sulaiman, for the support in our fight for democracy and freedom in Ukraine.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a big, complicated democracy, and one of the strengths of our country is... its rich diversity.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it's vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.
- Nov 07, 2020
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
- Democratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression of democracy. This is why our mission at Shopify is to protect that form of expression and make it better for everyone, not just for those we agree with.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to give moral support to my supporters. If I'm not going to fight anymore, that might hurt the feelings of my supporters. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the rule of law.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is like a totalitarian.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
America and Israel share an unwavering commitment to democracy and shared values.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is messy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
- Institution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020