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"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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."
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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."
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"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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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."
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"Democracy fascinates me."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"Democracy is not about one party dominating."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."
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Explore more quotes by Sydney J. Harris
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
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"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
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"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
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"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
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"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
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"Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady."
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