Democracy Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perspective, Islam, Middle East

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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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• 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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• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Order, Challenges, Saws

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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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• Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Country, Brother, Taken

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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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• Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

  R. Lee Wrights

  Rights, Want, Premises

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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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• I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.

  Pat Robertson

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "The 700 Club". TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• The 'corporatization of America' during the past century has been an attack on democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, America, Century

  "Profit over People". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1999.

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• Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills.  Art is a vast democracy of habit.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Practice, Skills

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• Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

  Shirin Ebadi

  People, East, West

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, Friday, Running

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Office, Crowds

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
  Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Bridges, Reign, Privilege

  'On a Great Election' (1923)

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• In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

  Jack Kingston

  Leader, Infancy, Ethiopia

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• What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Government, Ukraine, People

  "Democratic presidential candidate accuses US of provoking Ukrainian crisis". www.rt.com. March 5, 2014.

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• Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now OK to express ourselves publicly. We must make that day ourselves, by speaking out publicly -- first in small numbers, then in greater numbers, until it's simply the way things are and no one thinks twice. Never doubt that we will create this world, because, my friends, we are fortunate to live in a democracy, and in a democracy, we decide what's possible.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Thinking, Small Numbers, Two

  "Tammy Baldwin, Our Voice of the Future" by Kristen Hotham Carroll, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, Medicine, Austerity

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, British, Abandon

  "Theresa May accused of lifting cat anecdote from Ukip leader" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Relative Value, Confusion, Political

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