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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam, Trying, Ideas

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
Paul Wellstone

Education, Human, Goal

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Novalis

Men, Fact, Rights

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Dreams, Freedom, Give

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing, Nation, Once

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

Change, Freedom, Toward

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Whether, System, Asking

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
Herman Melville

Hell, Whether, Dignity

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin

Women, Freedom, Human

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

Blame, Free, Process

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai

Peace, Today, Human

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Bill Vaughan

Fight, America, Vote

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

Freedom, Government, Decisions

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
Michelle Malkin

Darkness, President, Land

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity, Dream, Whole

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme

Society, Group, Rights

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

Evil, Rather, Tyranny

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
Caroline Kennedy

Political, Law, Decisions

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter

Freedom, Christian, Earth

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing, Everything, Down

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Change, Political, Violence

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Government, Keep, Check

We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
King Abdullah II

Rest, Muslim, Example

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.
Henry A. Wallace

Failure, Spiritual, Vision

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Principles

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge

Ignorance, Evil, May

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru

End, Means, Socialism

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Experience, Adversity

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Pat Robertson

Home, Made, Mistake

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson

Means, Anyone, President

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