#emo

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#affairs #around #back #bring #clarity

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #curtain #democratic #few #generation

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#important #lose #match #pretty #terms

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#democratic #democratic state #dream #entirety #everything

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#believe #bunch #clothes #democratic #democratic party

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition. ↗

— William Shatner

#because #burden #cry #crying #dinner

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#duty #gone #meaning #only #remain

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#corrupt #democracy #election #few #form