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

Democracy, Paradise, Nation, Nothing

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"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, English Writer

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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

Lee H. Hamilton, American Politician

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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

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"Democracy fascinates me."

Lee H. Hamilton, American Politician

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."

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"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

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"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."

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"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

"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."

"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."

"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"

"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."

"Democracy fascinates me."

Explore more quotes by Emile M. Cioran

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas."

"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."

"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."

"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"