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Democracy Quotes (page 13)

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives. Earl Blumenauer
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. Richard Parks Bland
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. James E. Rogers
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy. Peter L. Berger
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? Abu Bakar Bashir
Jeanette Rankin quote: "Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we..."
Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy. Jeanette Rankin
Reinhold Niebuhr quote: "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's..."
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. Ibrahim Babangida
Aristotle quote: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate..."
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. Christiane Amanpour
Tatyana Ali quote: "Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a..."
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? Tatyana Ali
Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing? a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix,... Terence McKenna
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite. Vilfredo Pareto
Oswald Spengler quote: "Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after..."
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect. Oswald Spengler

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