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Democracy Quotes by Paul Wellstone
- The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
- Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
- The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
- As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it…
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood