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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 is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
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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."
Democracy
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
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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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"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways."
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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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"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
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