Best democracy & dream Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.”

Made Dream Spiritual Difficult Practice Democracy Society Reflection Democrat Racist Faithfulness

Author:Paulo Freire

“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”

Dream America Certain Culture Interest Democracy Personality Aspiration Clash Mobility

Author:David Brooks

“I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.”

Men Real Dream Dies Loses Democracy Greatness Source Submit

Author:Edwin Land

“I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.”

People Men Use Dream Voice Democracy Achieve Divine

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely to improve the fate of each and every person.”

Humans Persons Dream America Justice Democracy Fate Rights Mankind Policy Prove Human Rights Realistic American Dream Utopia

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.”

People Heart Long Dream Democracy Needed Awakening Democracies Have Egyptian

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.”

People Want Dream Party Democracy India Election Prosperity Manifestos

Author:Narendra Modi

“This country has attained 'Swarajya', but unfortunately the dream of 'Surajya' is left unfulfilled. Today, if there is any major challenge before this country, it is that of a 'Surajya' and since the last decade, Gujarat is working in the direction of attaining Surajya.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.”

Humans Dream Fighting Human Beings Democracy Blood Bottom Flesh Patriot Flesh And Blood

Author:Bill Moyers

“A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.”

Thinking Self Dream Term Party Democracy Democrat Selfless

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.”

Way Dream Choices Goal Democracy Achieve India Aim Election Framework

Author:Narendra Modi

“In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.”

Dream Democracy Pilgrim

Book:Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.”

World Long Dream Democracy Pieces Building Organization Decades Gorgeous Family Life Long Life Compounds Acres Vermont

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.”

Want Looks Reason Dream Winning Democracy Materials Arms Damage

Author:Shimon Peres

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