#democracy

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #i #market #pressures #say

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#bring #convinced #country #democracy #i

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#dictatorship #heart #house #king #least

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy. ↗

— Juan Bosch

#communism #democracy #getting #rid #saved

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. ↗

— James Bovard

#back #cage #democracy #falling #first

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote. ↗

— Aaron Brown

#democracy #most #perfect #remote #sit

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#committees #democracy #making #speeches #work

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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