#demo

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#arms #crush #democratically #elected #enemy

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #democratic system #effect #enough #moment

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratically #difficult #elections #incapable #part

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic system #form #government #illusion #live

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #governed #imf #institutions #world

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#others #politics #right #science #wrong

I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#became #communists #democrats #fact #former

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#allowed #attempt #capitalism #corrupt #democracy

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#capable #citizen #democracy #equilibrium #humanist

I will protect democracy with my life. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#i #life #my life #protect #will