Best democracy & true-democracy Quotes

“People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.”

People Mean Doe Democracy Havens Feminist Posts Racist True Democracy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.”

Thinking Enjoy Democracy China True Democracy

Author:Simon Winchester

“I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.”

“For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.”

Men Real Country Earth Realizing Democracy Share Achieve Equal True Democracy

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.”

Class Democracy Upper Class Connecticut True Democracy

Book:The official preppy handbook

Source: The official preppy handbook

“Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.”

Doe Law Liberty Democracy Rights Produce Discipline Exercise Bases Guarantees Strict True Democracy

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.”

Men Should May Long Doe Government Spirit Democracy Rights Conscience Motive Priesthood True Democracy

Author:David O. McKay

“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.”

Heaven Democracy Talent Goodness Degrees Eternal Scales Distinction Graduates Almighty Everlasting Nobility Patents True Democracy

Author:Catharine Sedgwick

“I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.”

Thinking Way Stills Would Be Courses President Democracy Army Raises Strikes Best Way True Democracy

Author:Gore Vidal

“Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?”

War Language Democracy Willing India Britain Allies English Language Defence Englishmen Unwilling Great Britain Prosecution True Democracy

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.”

Democracy India Village Units True Democracy

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.”

Persons Spirit Democracy Claims Aspiration Representing Inconsistent True Democracy

Book:The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words

Source: The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words

“The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect's function in universe.”

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means.”

Mean Democracy Mass Violent True Democracy

Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri

“I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.”

“The majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious?”

People Ifs World States United United States Democracy Imagine Danger Majority Israel Iran Syria True Democracy

Author:Andre Vltchek

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