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“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.”

World Want Should Years Said War Country Turns President Democracy Achieve Style Capacity Western Secure Aspiration Realistic Afghanistan President Obama Poorest

Author:David Petraeus

“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

People Ifs Believe May Mean Certain Turns Process Democracy Particular Demand Projects Majority Democratic Disaster Great Men Minorities Tricky Efficacy Democratic Process

Book:The Roosevelt I Knew

Source: The Roosevelt I Knew

“The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement”

Should War Turns Democracy Movement Anti War Anti War Movement

Author:Naomi Klein

“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!”

World Want Kind Long Country Government Night Turns Fighting Stuff Democracy Imagine Vote Army Supposed To Be Imagine That All Night Register Hypocritical Saigon

Author:Malcolm X

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”

Giving Wells Whole Certain Turns Democracy Taken Acceptance Comfort Fortune Obvious Curious Well Being Sanctions

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

Ifs Believe Political Turns I Believe Sound Effort Teach Democracy Honest Politician Campaigns Former Assumption Latter Unthinkable Burglars Political Campaign Good Politicians

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.”

Years Mean States Turns Interest Democracy Century Periods Areas Toms 18th Century Paine Tom Paine

Author:Fiona Shaw

“A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.”

Bigs Turns Democracy Majority Handle Minorities Resolve Organize Committees Defects Abolish Majority Rule

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.”

Thinking Looks May Reason Happens Able Turns Politics Given Party Democracy Perspective Believer Ideology Tea Tea Party Happens For A Reason

Author:Eric Cantor

“Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.”

Turns Easy Process Democracy Ideals Institutions Democratic Decades Cherish Democratic Ideals

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.”

Knows Men Way Ends Care Turns Interest Democracy Politician Reign Who Cares

Book:The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

Source: The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to

“Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.”

Source: Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.

“All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.”

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Author:George Lucas

“That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.”

Persons Doe Turns Democracy Issues Empires Republic Dictatorship Exploring Good Person Vader

Author:George Lucas

“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.”

“Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.”

“If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.”

Ifs Looks Children Ideas School Turns Democracy Century Immigrants Agendas Voters Educate Nineteenth Century Participants Explicit

Author:Dana Goldstein

“First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."”

“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.”

People Want Kind Book Ideas Turns Democracy Environment Percent Access

Author:Robert Hass

“It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.”

People World Way Government Happens Turns Democracy Nice Late Strive One Way Too Late Enlightened Globes Avoiding Parliament Straightforward Despotism World Government Populist

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.”

People Want Trying Littles Country Turns Powerful Party Democracy Gains Democrat Likes Republic Playgrounds

Author:Rush Limbaugh

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