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• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Indeed, Bolder, Thrown

• Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

  Chinua Achebe

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Wake Up, Practicing

• The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people’s differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.

  Jerome Nathanson

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Diversity, Acceptance, Tolerance

• The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

  Theodore H. White

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Pollution, Today

• I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Topics in Democracy, Work

  Tags in Course, Said, Tired

• It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Topics in Democracy, Society

  Tags in Term, Apart

• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Art, Democracy

  Tags in Itself, Schools, Economics, Theology, Anywhere

• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Give, Own, Every

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizen, Eloquence

• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Democracy, Economy, Environment

  Tags in Modern, Emergence, Cultivation, Nigerian, Saw

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, SantCa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Heaven, Dreams

• Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in More And More, People

• Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

  Aeschines

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizen, Armed, Guard, Suspicion

• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Simone Weil

  Topics in Country, Democracy

  Tags in Peace

• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Unknown

  Topics in Democracy, Education, Knowledge

  Tags in Radicals, Liberals, Conservatives, Solidarity, Change/Growth

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Responsibility

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Blunder, Anew, Opportunities

• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Ethics, Inclusion, Interdependence, Good

• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Democracy, Respect

  Tags in Equal

• The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Democracy, Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Action