Democracy Quotes - Page 32

• Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Historical, Principles, Matter

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• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Political, Oligarchy

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• People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

  Tony Hiss

  Journey, Impact, Self

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• The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

  Joost Meerloo

  Freedom, Confusing, Mind

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• I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Majesty, Reap, Successors

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• Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

  Joseph Estrada

  Threat, Dictatorship, Ballots

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• Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Blood, Pieces, Flesh

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• The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.

  Sarah Palin

  Home, Media, Campaigns

  "Today's Power Play: Bloomberg Bid Would Help Obama" by Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. November 17, 2010.

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• By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest... The latent causes of faction are sown in the nature of man.

  James Madison

  Passion, Men, Numbers

  "Federalist No. 10 (The Federalist Papers)". Essay by James Madison, November 23, 1787.

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• I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the democracy we restored 20 years ago.

  Corazon Aquino

  Years, People, Together

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• Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, Achieve, Mass

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• The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Journey, Self, Creating

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• Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people, is fundamental in maintaining a free and open political system.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Office, Political

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• The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perception, World, Levels

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• When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Fall, Way, Tides

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Mistake, Past, Opportunity

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• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Distance, War, Commitment

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• Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.

  Irving Fisher

  Class, Long, Political

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• To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Technology, Government, Innovation

  "President Sebastian Pinera: I want a First World Chile by 2020" By Claire Brennan, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

  Sam Smith

  Media, May, Mass

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• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Powerful, Drug

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• No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man?  I don't want to go down that low.  I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Fighting, Men, White Man

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• The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Practice, Age, Arbitrary

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.418, Coventry House Publishing

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• The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, True Leader, True Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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