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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 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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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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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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"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."
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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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"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
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"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
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"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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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
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"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
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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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