- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump has added a whole different factor that we've never seen before, but the audience loves it. We've seen the energy around our state, so many crowds coming; it's good for democracy to have so many people engaged.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
- Draconian
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- Nov 07, 2020