Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes, Moving Quotes, Democracy Quotes

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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Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

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The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

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Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

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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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Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

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Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

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