"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Democracy, Destruction, Difference, Liberty

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Democracy,

"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

Kate Adie, British Journalist

Democracy, Information, Secrecy, Silence

"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."

Claude Pepper, American Politician

Democracy, Right, Wrong

"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."

Stanley Crouch, American Critic

Democracy, Reading, Writers

"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Democracy, Potential

"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Democracy, Manners, Mind, Weapons

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer

Democracy, Years

"Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature."

Nick Lampson, American Politician

Democracy, Rights, Humanrights, President

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

Democracy, Voting

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"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."

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"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

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"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

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"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

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"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."

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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."

"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."

"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that."

"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."

"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

"Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature."

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

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"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."

"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."

"Inactivity is death."

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."

"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."

"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."