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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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"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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"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
"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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"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
"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
Religion
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
People
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
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