In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
DemocracyPoliticalHealthyDecency
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.
Michael Moore
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The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.
Richard Edelman
DemocracyFakeNewsInformedVoter
No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.
Nick Clooney
DemocracyLongPlaceMatterMore
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. Philip Randolph
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Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.
Jeannette Rankin
DemocracySmallWillRaceCannot
People should vote for democracy, and Britain should vote for hope.
Michael Gove
HopePeopleDemocracyVoteShould
If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
WelcomeDemocracyControlSurvive
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
TechnologyPerfectionMeDemocracy
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
Ramzan Kadyrov
PeacePeopleDemocracyYouKnowAsk
Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?
Mo Ibrahim
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Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
DemocracyCountryWayOnlyGovern
We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
Margrethe Vestager
LawDemocracyFreeYouJungleKnow
Democracy is not about one party dominating.
Ed Townsend
DemocracyPartyAboutDominating
Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.
Michael Ignatieff
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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
Atifete Jahjaga
PowerLawDemocracyAccountability
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emil Cioran
DemocracyParadiseNothingNation
Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
Pat Buchanan
DiversityPeopleConflictDemocracy
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
Mohamed ElBaradei
PeopleDemocracyLongDreamHearts
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr
JusticeManDemocracyInjustice
There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
Lee Daniels
PeopleDemocracySomethingAbout
If you're going to have an exchange of ideas, the only thing you can do is to meet people face-to-face in front of a crowd who may think differently than you do. I mean, that's what democracy is about, isn't it?
Ed Schultz
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My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.
John Sayles
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One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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