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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
- Economic Policies
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- Nov 07, 2020
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Nov 07, 2020
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a speculator, philanthropist and political activist. He made a fortune by doing things such as betting against Britain's currency in 1992 and Thailand's in 1997. A Hungarian refugee, he has spent millions to promote democracy and learning in post-Soviet nations.
- Cuckoo
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020