Quotes 81 till 100 of 230.
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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
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Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others.
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Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Faceboek (2016) -
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
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Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p -
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
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From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
Toespraak bij ontvangst Nobelprijs (2001) -
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.
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Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
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Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.
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