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Image of Jamie Dimon
A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.
- Jamie Dimon
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Dewey
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
- John Dewey
Collection: Democracy
Image of Jill Stein
Democracy needs a moral compass.
- Jill Stein
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Image of Kofi Annan
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
- Kofi Annan
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Image of Jill Stein
If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.
- Jill Stein
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Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Collection: Democracy
Image of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Collection: Democracy
Image of B. C. Forbes
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
- B. C. Forbes
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Image of Jill Stein
We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
- Jill Stein
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Shirin Ebadi
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west and democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
- Shirin Ebadi
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Image of Yasser Arafat
We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.
- Yasser Arafat
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Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Image of Aristotle
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
- Aristotle
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Che Guevara
Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.
- Che Guevara
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Image of Khalil Gibran
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Democracy
Image of Dick Gregory
If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.
- Dick Gregory
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Al Gore
A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.
- Al Gore
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
What good shall I do this day?
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Anatole France
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
- Anatole France
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Image of Frank Gehry
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
- Frank Gehry
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Image of David Frum
Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.
- David Frum
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Ashcroft
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed
- John Ashcroft
Collection: Democracy
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mikhail Gorbachev
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Collection: Democracy
Image of Harry Emerson Fosdick
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Collection: Democracy
Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Collection: Democracy
Image of William Greider
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
- William Greider
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Aristotle
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
- Aristotle
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of David Frum
So little of what makes a democracy work is written down. So much of it is just the things you don't do. There are a lot of things that a prime minister or a president can do and they don't do them because it never occurs to them to do them.
- David Frum
Collection: Democracy
Image of David Frum
Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings.
- David Frum
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Image of Al Gore
Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.
- Al Gore
Collection: Democracy
Image of Reid Hoffman
Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.
- Reid Hoffman
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Image of Friedrich August von Hayek
It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
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Image of Isaac Asimov
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
- Isaac Asimov
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Image of Ilana Mercer
The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."
- Ilana Mercer
Collection: Democracy
Image of Martin Schulz
If you say in advance there is going to be a main candidate and then that doesn't count later, then that's going to be a highly problematic occurrence in a democracy.
- Martin Schulz
Collection: Democracy
Image of Cullen Hightower
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
- Cullen Hightower
Collection: Democracy
Image of Christopher Hitchens
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
- Christopher Hitchens
Collection: Democracy