“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.” IfsWorldHandsLawSupportDemocracyBuiltRevenge Author:Madeleine Albright
“There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.” DifferentViewsDemocracyProtectBuiltPoint Of ViewSecularHeresyViewpointsBlasphemyFreedom Of Religion Author:Flemming Rose
“You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.” PeopleSelfDemocracyBuiltInstitutionsMood Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.” LawDemocracyShareInformationSolutionsEnlightenmentBuiltAbuseCorruptionDebateEnlightenedAccountabilityRule Of LawIndignationSubjugationEnlightenment And Love Author:Atifete Jahjaga
“How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.” KnowsWorldDemocracyPolicyStrangeBuiltDemocraticBottomAround The WorldBeastEmpiresDragonsLionsForeign PolicyMythical Beasts Author:Mark Danner
“So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.” KindMadeFactsPoliticalCertainDemocracyIdentityBuiltViolentDemocracies HaveHardenedAntagonism Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.” PrinciplesDemocracyMovementBuiltUniversality Author:George W. Bush