- Delegates
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- 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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- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a free Europe... the system of power lies on three pillars. These are democracy, rule of law, and human rights. It's impossible to use one against the other.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will do everything I can... to make sure that Poland sticks to a development that fosters the rule of law, democracy.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of problems with democracy. We need to think about how to find the people most qualified for the job.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.
- Eruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to say anything to people I may say people should vote for those who are respectful to democracy, rule of law, who get on well with people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My message to the Turkish people is never to view any military intervention positively because through military intervention, democracy cannot be achieved.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020