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"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
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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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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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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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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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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 too good to share with just anybody."
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"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
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"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."
People
"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
War
"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."
People
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
Army
"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
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"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
Life
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
Civilization
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