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"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker."
"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"
"We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation."
"There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative."
"I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward."
"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online."
"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"
"Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way."
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