Free Elections Quotes

• Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Historical, Doe, Election

  One-Dimensional Man ch. 1 (1964)

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• Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

  Matt Taibbi

  Integrity, Greed, Democracy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2010.

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• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Years, Class, Politics

  "The State and Revolution". Chapter 5, www.marxists.org. 1917.

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• In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

  Matt Taibbi

  Freedom, Greed, Democracy

  "The Great American Bubble Machine" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.

  Saul Alinsky

  Loyalty, Spring, Rights

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage

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• The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Mean, Profound

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• Leave us to our free election.

  William Shakespeare

  4th Of July, Election

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Pericles”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

  Elliott Abrams

  Independent, Iran, Freedom Of Speech

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• We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.

  George H. W. Bush

  Exercise, Men, Presidential

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

  Eustace Mullins

  War, Russia, Rights

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• The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Winning, Historical, Election

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• The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Election, Trouble, Cold War

  Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in "International Affairs" Vol. 36, (p. 4), 1960.

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• If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

  Garry Wills

  Wish, Slavery, Election

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• Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.

  Elif Safak

  Fall, Turkeys, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The people are fed up with corruption and embezzlement. They object to censorship. The first thing that the people of Iran want is free elections.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, People, Want

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.

  Mickey Edwards

  People, Pockets, Citizens

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

  Moshe Arens

  Israel, World, May

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• We have free elections. Everybody can vote, we fought for that, we brag about that and we know we're going to have a winner and we're going to have a loser.

  Jim Brown

  Election, Vote, Loser

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  Candy Crowley

  Country, Grateful, Opportunity

  "CNN's Candy Crowley Will Be First Woman in 20 Years to Moderate a Presidential Debate" by Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Law, Civilization

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

  Ali Khamenei

  Issues, Territory, Recognition

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• Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

  Christine Gregoire

  Country, Appreciation, Military

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• Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

  John M. McHugh

  Years, People, Voting

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• America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Home, Europe

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