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Democracy should not work on the basis of personalities. Naveen Patnaik
Work Democracy Personalities Should Basis
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom. Nawal El Saadawi
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Institutionalizing dissent in our agencies moves us toward a healthier democracy and helps fulfill our founders' vision. Neal Katyal
Democracy Vision Dissent Our Toward Healthier Moves Agencies Us Fulfill Helps Founders
Our system of government, our form of democracy, would not work for China, just like China's system would not work for us. Neil Bush
Work Government Democracy Our System Would Like Just Form China Us
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Democracy World Single Nothing Everyone Solution More Efficient Than Plan Agree
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
Democracy Matter Long We Cannot Stay More Troops Parliamentary How Impose Than Any Cannot Place Theocracy Many
At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Nick Harkaway
Democracy Capitalism Heart People Simple Free Assumption Relatively Borrow Both Rational Term Make Board Decisions Across Medical Competent
I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars. Nigel Farage
War Democracy Example Single Think Other Finish Absence Up Mature Going Where Breakdown Century Wars Each Two
Donald Trump believes in nation-state democracy; Hillary Clinton used the E.U. as a prototype for a larger global union. Donald Trump believes in sensible immigration controls. Nigel Farage
Democracy Immigration Global Hillary Hillary Clinton Prototype Clinton Trump Donald Donald Trump Controls Sensible Used Union Larger Believes
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. Nigel Farage
Democracy Rest Abandon Telling Must Appalling Europe British Chancellor
There is always, of course, a limit in a democracy as to what is politically possible, so you have to respect that limit. But in my experience, governments tend to be too timid. Nigel Lawson
Democracy You Respect Experience Too Possible Tend Course Limit Always Governments Timid Politically
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody. Nigel Rees
Good Democracy Too Share Just Anybody
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion. Noah Feldman
Democracy Fight Changing Because Opinion Often Public Noted Hard Public Opinion Wars
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy. Noah Feldman
Democracy First Islam Relation Between Major Question Decade Century International Twenty-First
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. Noam Chomsky
War Democracy People World Political First Had Until First World First World War Scientists Been Up Germany Model American Turned World War
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. Olof Palme
Freedom Democracy Dignity Political Political Freedom Question Human Human Dignity Us
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking. Omar Bongo
Democracy Thinking One-Sided Idea Produced
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity. Orhan Pamuk
Me Democracy Respect Rights Dignity People Free Free Speech System About Consuming Goods Fanciful Speech
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking. Os Guinness
Today Democracy Class People Past Few Gone Relatively Wealthy Known Always Been Very American Middle Middle Class In The Past Poor Poor People Large Shrinking
Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky
Politics Democracy Television Ugliest
Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception. Pankaj Mishra
Democracy Speak Language Increasingly Those Corrupted Indians Seem Rather More Exception Terrorists Prove Israelis Norm Than May Elect Who Many Set
To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money. Pankaj Mishra
Democracy Money Dictatorship Egotistical Solid Given Tactics Students Disagreements Over Were Lot Impression May Energetic Against Consensus
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics. Park Geun-hye
Politics Democracy Value Believe Unchanging Ends Cannot Justify Means
I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy. Park Geun-hye
Democracy Value Lasting Understand Does End Justify Should Means
We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport. Parker Palmer
Democracy Treat Become Drama Members Deformed Religious Adult Instead Institutions Sport Audience Educational Been Us Who Actor Spectator
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