- Hatred
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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
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it reasonable that in a country purporting to be a democracy, I am not permitted to speak freely? Why, as a politician, should I be banned from expressing political opinions? Why, as a student of history, can I not present the facts as I see them, without fear of reprisal?
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States exists as a sovereign nation. 'America,' in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is out to destroy people's lives, and he's trying to take our democracy down. That is something we can fight with everything we've got, but having compassion for one another while we do it is going to get us a lot further.
- Governance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.
- Immunity
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- Nov 07, 2020