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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
- Election
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Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
- Politics
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Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.
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We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once said, 'It was easier to conquer the world on horseback than to dismount and govern.' True validation of democracy lies less in what we tear down, and more in what we build.
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We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
- Messy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.
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Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten democracy?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until defense of democracy in the digital era is taken up by governments collectively, both in NATO and outside the alliance, liberal democracies will remain vulnerable to the cyberthreats of the 21st century.
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
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It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.
- Liberty
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The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
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- Nov 07, 2020