- Personality
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disintegration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
- Common Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government must give men and women without power a real say over what happens to them, and the means of engaging in a participative, invigorated and living democracy.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to do with democracy. They are means to an end, and they use the black population as sacrifices for their goals.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a danger in democracy itself.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020