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The students had a ‘textbook definition’ understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.

—Scott Erwin

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

—Vladimir Ilich

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Ainsi donc, en s’alliant à un pouvoir politique, la religion augmente sa puissance sur quelques-uns, et perd l’espérance de régner sur tous.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don’t have to listen.

—Anthony Hincks

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For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?

—Anna Jae

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There are great reasons to celebrate. This is a gigantic step toward the recovery of democracy and liberty.

—Alejandro Toledo

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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values… it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.Now I may be opposed to abortion...

—Barack Obama

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The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

—Carl Scovel

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[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

—Irving M.

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Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c’è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un’aberrazione in un...

—Isabel Allende

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These are all the basics of democracy.

—Condoleezza Rice

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What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make...

—David Graeber

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The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

—Hosni Mubarak

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

—James Bovard

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If you wanted to bestow the grandiose title of “most successful organization in modern history,” you would struggle to find a more obviously worthy nominee than the federal government of the United States.In its earliest...

—David Leonhardt

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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

—Gore Vidal

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I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would...

—Martin Luther

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Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

—Janet Poppendieck

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The Bush rhetoric about democracy has little to do with Washington’s actual policy goals in the Middle East.

—Norman Solomon

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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on...

—John Stuart Mill

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This means that democracy will not exist and dictatorship by foreign powers with their puppet governments will be the system of the world.

—Mahathir Mohamad

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There is no democracy in physics. We can’t say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

—Luis Walter

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Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers...

—Patrick Henry

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[…] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

—Reza Aslan

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democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

—Rohinton Mistry

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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

—Todd Akin

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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

—Robert B. Reich

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Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life,...

—Ronald Reagan

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In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of...

—Paul Lafargue

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To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

—Rémy de

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Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of the people do not clearly see what...

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the very extreme...

—Abraham Lincoln

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We urge the king to return to democracy by initiating a dialogue with the country’s political parties. After one year of arbitrary rule, this is the best way to address the Maoist insurgency and to...

—Adam Ereli

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It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

—B.R. Ambedkar

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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?Toby: God bless America.

—Aaron Sorkin

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When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become...

—Aristotle

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Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

—Edward Abbey

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No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of...

—H.L. Mencken

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Demokratie gestattet keine Politik außerhalb des demokratischen Systems. In diesem Sinne ist Demokratie totalitär.

—J.M. Coetzee

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You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

—Helen Thomas

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Youths are the life blood of any nation.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

—Eli Pariser

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Nine out of ten people agree, it was right and just to kill and eat that one guy. That’s love. That’s democracy. That’s a free dinner.

—Jarod Kintz

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As life speeds up & the political becomes ever more personal democracy continues to foster change as fast as the movement of tectonic plates

—Dean Cavanagh

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People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of...

—Jacob Zuma

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For guns and ammunition,” says I.

—Jerry Ash

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Es ist wichtig zu begreifen, dass wir der Toleranz nicht dienen, wenn wir unser Profil verwässern, sondern indem wir uns umgekehrt unserer eigenen Werte wieder vergewissern. […] Wir tun der Toleranz auch nichts Böses an,...

—Joachim Gauck

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

—Leon Trotsky

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LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

—Langston Hughes

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