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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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- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
- Bankers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
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Exporting this Western model of democracy in countries that don't want it or are not ready creates disasters.
- Hope
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Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
- Great
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To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
- Able
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Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions - and that is especially true for universities.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020