Quotes with democracy

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  • C. Wright Mills Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Dan Quayle I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred M. Gray I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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  • Don Alan Pennebaker I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists - there's no room for democracy in making film.
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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Langston Hughes I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • A. J. Liebling I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Alexander Woollcott I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Kofi Annan If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
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    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carl Levin If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Benazir Bhutto In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • J. William Fulbright In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Chris Patten In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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  • Brigitte Bardot In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Aristotle In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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