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There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
Andrew Young
Truth
Freedom
Democracy
Change
Progress
Without
Controversy
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro
Democracy
Justice
Communism
Marxism
Economy
Representative
Social
Social Justice
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros
Home
Freedom
Democracy
Value
Society
Liberties
Civil
Civil Liberties
Open
Open Society
Because
America
Chose
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government
Democracy
Badly
Aristocracy
Educated
Uneducated
While
Means
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy
Dream
Dream It
Only
Put
Category
Same
Heaven
Should
Santa
Santa Claus
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Herbert Hoover
Good
Democracy
Good And Evil
Opportunity
Evil
Invention
Living
Every
Static
Both
Idea
New
Force
New Idea
Offers
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
Imran Khan
Democracy
You
People
Election
Assume
Know
Means
Pakistan
Actually
Here
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
Jacque Fresco
Service
Democracy
Pay
Our
Citizens
Structure
More
More And More
Economic
Leaders
Supporting
Freedoms
Provides
Debt
Lip
Lip Service
While
Actually
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy
Socialism
End
Itself
Means
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
Jay Griffiths
Democracy
Knowledge
Vote
Voting
Duty
Adequately
True
Democratic
Without
Just
Being
Informed
Electorate
Right
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
Joni Mitchell
War
Democracy
People
Way
Say
Threaten
Something
He
Like
Him
Dictator
Any
Elected
Who
Resemblance
Even
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
Michael Leunig
Democracy
Heart
Tyranny
More
Most
Without
Becoming
Any
Just
Working
Sanity
Unique
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
Mo Ibrahim
Democracy
Intimidation
Place
Harassment
Violence
I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.
Narendra Modi
Strength
Democracy
You
Criticism
Say
Must
Lies
Invite
Always
Want
Means
Grow
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
Ray Bradbury
Life
Education
Great
Democracy
You
Vote
Country
Complete
Our
Way
About
Know
Great Thing
Read
Readers
Within
How
Decide
Then
Should
Keep
Thing
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
Government
Democracy
Man
Worth
Honorable
Most
Because
Form
Dying
Ever
Deeply
In a democracy, you need to have a strong judicial system. You need freedom of speech, you need art, and you need a free press.
Tzipi Livni
Art
Freedom
Democracy
You
Strong
Free
Free Press
Freedom Of Speech
Press
System
Judicial
Judicial System
Need
Speech
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam Chomsky
Truth
Democracy
History
Class
Training
Events
Minority
Ideology
Lying
Hidden
Distortion
Seek
Facilities
Through
Veil
Provides
Western
Privileged
Current
Behind
Leisure
Which
Interest
Us
Presented
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Noam Chomsky
Freedom
Democracy
Survival
Valued
Possibly
More
Terminal
Ideals
Existence
Than
Essential
May
Human
Just
Human Existence
Phase
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Noam Chomsky
Democracy
Control
Say
States
System
Rigidity
Through
Indoctrination
Mass
Mass Media
Industrial
Ideological
Unusual
Might
Media
United
United States
Among
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Al Smith
Democracy
More
Cured
Ills
It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.
Alice Oswald
Democracy
Rain
Water
Outbreak
Relief
Instantly
Drops
Like
Equal
Equally
Becomes
Sound
Falling
Hear
Hits
Committed
Ground
Billions
Sudden
Flood
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Andrew Vachss
Democracy
Change
Progressive
Journalism
Force
Social
Social Change
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
Bill Moyers
Democracy
Benefits
Political
Own
Corporate
Direction
Policies
Up
Privatizing
America
Rewards
Tax
Form
Tax Cuts
Regime
Cuts
Now
Elites
Flow
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan
Democracy
Vote
Fight
Election
Will
Citizen
Ocean
National
Cross
America
Street
Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo
Government
Democracy
Business
Gift
Job
Citizen
Responsibility
Own
Every
Enough
Virtue
Particular
Dishonesty
Your
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