Democracy Quotations..

• What you're seeing and hearing at the moment is undoubtedly putting your basic democratic feelings to a hard test.
  Konrad Adenauer # Democracy, Feelings, Politics Quotes
• Many people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.
  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk # Democracy, Science, Teaching, Freedom Quotes
• I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man ever became Prime Minister in Italy.
  Silvio Berlusconi # Democracy, Politics, Thinking Quotes
• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
  Tony Blair # America, Democracy, Commitment, World Quotes
• There are as many Scottish roads to Socialism as there are predictions of Britain's economic doom - but most of them demand three things: a coherant plan for an extension of democracy and control in society and industry which sees every reform as a means to creating a socialist society; a harnessing of the forces for industrial and community self-management within a political movement; and a massive programme of education by the Labour Movement as a whole.
  Gordon Brown # Economic, Planning, Democracy, Control, Society, Management, Politics, Education Quotes
• We are for honesty, openness, glasnost and democracy.
  Viktor Chernomyrdin # Honesty, Democracy, Thinking, Concept Quotes
• We are for continuity in the policy of democratic transformations in Russia.
  Viktor Chernomyrdin # Politics, Democracy, Changes Quotes
• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
  Jacques Chirac # Democracy, Life, Politics, World, Society Quotes
• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi # America, Politics, Great, Democracy, Society, Culture, Inspirational Quotes
• You do not think you live in a real democracy, because still you have a special type of government department like the Intelligence service that are above the law. You cannot invoke them, they can do anything and they still do.
  Mohamed Al-Fayed # Democracy, Government, Politics, Wrong, Thinking Quotes
• Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic.
  Mahatma Gandhi # Society, Different, Democracy, Improvement Quotes
• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
  Mikhail Gorbachev # America, Democracy, Teaching, Advertising, Ideas, Life, World Quotes
• In moving toward such bold revolutionary transformations, we understood that there would be errors, that there would be resistance, that the novelty would bring new problems. We foresaw the possibility of breaking in individual sections. However, the profound democratic reform of the entire system of power and government is the guarantee that the overall process of restructuring will move steadily forward and gather strength.
  Mikhail Gorbachev # Politics, Democracy, Changes Quotes
• We live in a dirty and dangerous world ... There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
  Katharine Graham # Life, Negative, World, Democracy, Information, Government Quotes
• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
  Carl Icahn # Problems, Democracy, America Quotes
• You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.
  Nelson Mandela # Democracy, Inspirational Quotes
• Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights.
  Nelson Mandela # Democracy Quotes
• I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
  Nelson Mandela # Democracy, Freedom, Society, Opportunity, Inspirational Quotes
• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
  Benito Mussolini # Democracy, Failure, Great Quotes
• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
  Benito Mussolini # Democracy, Fascism, Compromise, Fight Quotes
• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
  Pope John Paul II # Changes, Politics, America, Responsibility, Democracy, Justice, Freedom, Globalization Quotes
• It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.
  Pope John Paul II # Mistakes, America, Democracy, Faith, Truth, Value Quotes
• Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
  Augusto Pinochet # Democracy, Violence, Terror Quotes
• The most important thing, in my view, was that democracy cannot be exported. It should be a product of internal development of a society.
  Vladimir Putin # Important, Democracy, World, Politics, Society Quotes
• In the United States, you first elect the electors and then they vote for the presidential candidates. In Russia, the president is elected through the direct vote of the whole population. That might be even more democratic.
  Vladimir Putin # America, Politics, Democracy, Wrong Quotes
• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people — of its citizens.
  Vladimir Putin # Democracy, Decisions, Society Quotes
• The high participation rate translates into a renewal of our democracy and notably for youth everywhere in the country .... Bravo to all these youth for their civic commitment which reminds the Republic about the duties of respect and equality it has toward them.
  Segolene Royal # Democracy, Equality, Action, Nation Quotes
• Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
  Paul Samuelson # Asia, Government, Politics, Democracy, Weakness Quotes
• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
  Woodrow Wilson # Democracy, Governmental Quotes

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