Walt Whitman Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Democracy Quotes

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

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The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote.

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

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Let me begin by saying not only you can't have democracy with $75 million. You can't even have it with $750 billion.

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We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

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Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

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As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.

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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

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The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

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I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

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Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it.

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History is fables agreed upon.

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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.

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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

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