The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
FreedomBlessingDisciplineDemocracy
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.
Ron Eglash
SuccessPowerDemocracyGoogleFirst
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
DemocracyBetterDumbSometimesThan
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
IgnoranceEvilDemocracyWeedMay
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov
MomentPeopleDemocracyThinkPlans
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Andrew Young
DemocracyActionArmyYouSecurity
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
Corazon Aquino
FreedomGovernmentDemocracyEssence
'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.
Henry Rollins
DemocracyDuckWaveAmericaLong
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
DemocracyClearBetweenVeryDraw
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan
GodDemocracyLongWillEndure
I'm a pessimist about the euro, but not about Europe. So the southern periphery, Spain, Italy, Greece, leave - Italy might be the first to go - and the rest stay. That will work just fine. But unless they want to give up democracy, I don't see greater fiscal union as the answer.
Tyler Cowen
WorkDemocracyRestGoWantWill
Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
Virginia Foxx
LightDemocracyWorldAccountability
In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
Gary Hamel
TeaDemocracyFreePoliticalYou
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
Meles Zenawi
PeopleDemocracySocietyBelieveAny
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short
GoodTruthDemocracyThinkOldOut
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
Gloria Steinem
PeopleDemocracyStartYouSayTrue
But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
Wendell Willkie
ChangeDemocracyPresentViewEurope
The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.
Russ Feingold
DemocracyInfluenceDangerousIdea
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
Todd Young
DemocracyAttentionCountryPossible
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
DemocracySocialismIndispensable
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro
JusticeDemocracyCommunismEconomy
A Hillary Clinton presidency would have represented an important step away from the country's lagging acceptance of women as powerful, full participants in our democracy.
Mel Robbins
WomenAcceptanceStepDemocracyAway
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
Chrystia Freeland
DemocracyWorldPoliticalChoice
The motive power of democracy is love.
Henri Bergson
LovePowerDemocracyMotive
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