Democracy Quote by Amartya Sen Download Open image “Democracy is a universal value” — Amartya Sen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Universal Values
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit. — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not just a system, it is an idea that we all have value.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Democracy commits us to value, preserve and uphold the rights, dignity, and well-being of all, including our neighbors, those who are different than us,… — Diane Kalen-Sukra Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy. — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
