Acknowledge Quote by Shirin Ebadi

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…

— Flora Lewis

I think that rather than talking about particular models, of which there could be a huge number, we should talk about basic principles of…

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.

— Heather Brooke

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

— Kay Granger

There is no uniform, global model for democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

— Silvan Shalom

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

— Tariq Ali

When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades…

— Andre Vltchek