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"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
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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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"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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"Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed."
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"Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy."
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"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
Democracy
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
Society
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
Cultural
"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
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"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
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"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
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"When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear."
Economy
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