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#democracy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #democracy




Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.


Karen Armstrong


#friends #fundamentalists #includes #states #united

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.


Ibrahim Babangida


#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.


Ibrahim Babangida


#democracy #development #indeed #into #land

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.


Irving Babbitt


#conclude #democracy #feelings #forced #idealistic

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.


Irving Babbitt


#crusade #democracy #forth #going #imperialism

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.


Daniel Barenboim


#democracy #escaping #first #first step #full

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.


Gael Garcia Bernal


#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

Now I have very little respect for the electoral system in the United States. I could have respected it in the early days, when the country was small and we had small population. The system that we have in the United States was set up at a time when the total population was the population of Tennessee. We've stretched it to try to make it work for different kind of problems and in stretching and adapting it, we've lost its meaning. We still have the form but not the meaning. There's a lot of things that we have to look at critically that might have been useful at one time that are no longer useful I think there's some good in everything. There's some bad in everything. But there's so little good in some things that you know for practical purposes they're useless. They're beyond salvation. There's so much good in some things, even though there's bad, that we build on that.


Myles Horton


#electoral-system #facades #politics #progress #change

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#liberty

Presidents are selected, not elected.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#politics #presidency #presidents #voting #president






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