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“Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.”

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Author:Annette Lu

“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.”

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”

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Book:Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

“Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.”

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Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”

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Author:Catharine Sedgwick

“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”

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Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.”

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Author:Phillip E. Johnson

“We all have a responsibility, and as Rabbi Heschel, one of my prophets, has put it: "Those who condone, or are silent, in the face of injustice, are more guilty than the perpetrators." And so, to the degree we pretend to be a democracy, we have a corresponding duty to be activist enough to prevent our human rights form being infringed upon.”

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Author:Ray McGovern

“More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem