Democratization Quotes

• In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

  Gilles Kepel

  Iraq, Negative, Occupation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Order, Social, Regimes

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• It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Essentials, Transformation, Social

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• I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.

  Meles Zenawi

  Past, Pitfalls, Process

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• Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Peace, Justice, Democracy

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• There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Middle East, World, Demand

  "Recep Tayyip Erdogan: The Road to Middle East Democracy". Address at Harvard University, www.independent.co.uk. February 09, 2004.

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• We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Rights, Years, Two

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• Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

  Andrei Grechko

  Essence, Revolution

  "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.

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• A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Fashion, People, Desire

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• The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

  E. P. Thompson

  Reading, Views, Organization

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• The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

  Andrew Young

  Sports, Commercialization

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• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Political, Elements

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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

  Democracy, Middle East, Achieve

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• A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Play, Important, Roles

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• I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Party, Middle East

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• Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Mean, Men

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

  Kofi Annan

  Reading, Bridges, Full Potential

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Block, Mean

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• The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Independent, Government

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

  Nigel Gibson

  Real, Democracy, Projects

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

  Kofi Annan

  Full Potential, Dams, Literacy

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Bridges, Dams

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

  Gail Sheehy

  Democracy, Speech, Glasnost

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• In the minds of many Western politicians, military interventions and air strikes appear to have become legitimate policy tools since the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia during the 1990s. That's how they intend to bring everyone into line who don't share the Western view of democratization of society and the liberalization of the economy. But there is no future for that kind of globalization.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  Military, Air, Views

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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