Akbar Ganji Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.

  Akbar Ganji

  Country, Democracy, Attacking

• The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

  Akbar Ganji

  Rights, Democracy, World

• When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

  Akbar Ganji

  Democracy, Firsts, Crisis

• We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

  Akbar Ganji

  Struggle, Rights, Creating

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

  Akbar Ganji

  Democracy, Let Me, Billions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it. In a totalitarian state, the state views any act of an individual to be political in nature. For example, the clothing that a person wears in a modern state is a private affair whereas in the Islamic Republic all women are forced to wear the hijab (Islamic attire). When women push their headscarf back an inch or two, this is interpreted to be a political act.

  Akbar Ganji

  Islamic, Rights, Views

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