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• We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we’re doing it, is teach and learn.

  Stanley Eugene Fish

  Topics in Business, Democracy

• Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

  Corazon Aquino

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Freedom, Popular

• Liberal democracy – as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Slavoj Zizek

  Topics in Democracy

• It’s not a democracy here, it’s the Middle East.

  Silvan Shalom

  Topics in Democracy

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Topics in Democracy

• Democracy doesn’t recognize east or west; democracy is simply people’s will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Topics in Democracy

• Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Television

• You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress.

  Shimon Peres

  Topics in Democracy

• One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

  Claude Pepper

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Wrong

• I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

  Clare Short

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Think, Good

• I think that it’s a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it’s only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Russian

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it’s not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in People, Russian

• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Russians, Liberal

• Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We’re putting it into pamphlets. We’re doing a publicity show. We’re becoming symbols.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Human

• Let’s not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let’s give importance to the real democracy that’s constructed on a day-to-day basis. That’s my hopeful perspective on it.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Importance

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we’re being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We’ve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn’t. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It’s the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections

• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Aristocracy

• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Revolution

• I will protect democracy with my life.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Topics in Democracy, Life

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Criticism