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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
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This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.
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One thing that is great about India is the freedom to speak and the spaces available in our democracy to protest which doesn't exist in many places in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if AAP wins municipal elections we will continue to demand probe into EVM tampering because it threatens the base of democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parliament's job is to conduct discussions. But many a time, Parliament is used to ignore issues, and in such situations, obstruction of Parliament is in the favour of democracy. Therefore, parliamentary obstruction is not undemocratic.
- Basic Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020