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Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
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Alex Gibney
American
Director
Born:
Oct 23
,
1953
Topics
Democracy
,
People
,
Understanding
,
Critical
,
Between
,
Dialogue
,
Views
,
Fostering
,
Differing
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government
Democracy
Alien
Power
Country
President
Our
Rulers
Ourselves
Never
Never Forget
Over
Voters
Ultimate
Government Officials
Forget
Senators
Officials
Us
Let Us
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Best
Democracy
Conversation
Argument
Voter
Against
Average
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
Life
Good
Democracy
Knowledge
Ignorance
Political
Our
Nurtured
Way
States
Has-Been
Constant
Thread
Winding
Through
Always
Cult
Been
Cultural
False
Just
Strain
Means
Your
Notion
United
United States
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Thurgood Marshall
Democracy
You
Injustice
Speak
Country
Out
See
Wrong
Protect
Make
Because
Inequality
Pass
Where
Your
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy
Socialism
Equality
Liberty
Word
Nothing
One Word
Seeks
Restraint
Common
Difference
While
Notice
Servitude
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Louis L'Amour
Work
Democracy
Vote
Nation
Complain
Must
Simply
Observers
Participants
Make
Does
Who
Right
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Education
Democracy
Unless
Those
Wisely
Safeguard
Real
Cannot
Succeed
Choice
Choose
Who
Therefore
Express
Prepared
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
Faith
Democracy
Corruption
Creativity
Innovation
Cancer
Citizen
Important
National
Diminishes
Out
Jobs
Scares
Eats
Entire
Investments
Generations
Instinct
Talent
Budgets
Away
Wastes
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Democracy
Remember
Long
Suicide
Lasts
More
Never
Aristocracy
Soon
Itself
Bloody
Than
Did
Commit
Either
While
Monarchy
Wastes
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle
Democracy
Degenerate
Republics
Decline
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