Democratic System Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass…
— James Bovard
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to…
— James L. Buckley
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they…
— Madeleine Albright
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
— Jimmy Carter
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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
— Indira Gandhi
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a…
— Jose Saramago
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If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where…
— Tony Benn
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The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation…
— Lois Gibbs
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who…
— Dario Fo
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For a fledging democratic system to succeed, we need citizens who understand the procedures, believe in democratic rules and get personally involved.
— Friedrich Naumann
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I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated…
— Sebastian Pinera
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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or…
— Birch Bayh
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Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert…
— Eugen Kogon
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There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
— Robert Bourassa
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Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American…
— Al Gore
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Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit…
— Jason Reitman
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would…
— Jose Saramago
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Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
— Serj Tankian
Who Wrote These Democratic System Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Democratic System Quotes as follows: