Best development & democratic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”

“Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.”

World Individual Process Goal Voice Identity Development Shapes Skills Foundation Democratic Sustainability Literacy Democratic Process Cultural Identity

Author:Irina Bokova

“When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.”

Ifs Needs Hands Light Social Study Development Connections Organization Overcoming Democratic Separation Opposition Aesthetic Cultivation Refining Aristocratic Social Organization

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.”

“In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.”

People Men Firsts Ideas Government Certain Natural Rights Development Equal Institutions Democratic Creator Exploitation Organize Equal Rights Natural Rights

Book:Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons

Source: Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons

“Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.”

People World Enough Political Development Capable Institutions Democratic Stuck Unlucky Political Institutions Political Leadership

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance.”

Democracy Development India Election Democratic Alliances

Author:Narendra Modi

“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.”

“All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.”

Development Proud Institutions Democratic Hymns Morocco

Author:Donald Evans

“Military missions are not democratic development aid.”

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Author:Guido Westerwelle

“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.”

“The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.”

Ifs Looks Doe Situation Development Democratic South Iran Excess Accused Zeal Unstable

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.”

Thinking Country Path Development Democratic Mechanism Hinder Insurmountable

Author:Garry Kasparov

“In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.”

Needs States America Levels Cities Development Management Strategy Structure Democratic Work Out Locals Ownership Ecological Cooperatives

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.”

“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”

“This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.”

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Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.”

“Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.”

Culture Freedom Democracy Economic Development Approach Intellectual Democratic Guarantees Economic Development Intellectual Freedom

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“We want harmonious development, ... We should work together for more democratic and law-based international relations, and a harmonious environment in which countries respect one another, treat one another as equals, and different cultures can emulate and interchange with each other.”

“Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.”

Humans Government Society Information Development Citizens Essentials Democratic Access Citizenship Human Development Democratic Society

Author:Koichiro Matsuura

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