top of page
.png){kind=small}
"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
Standard
Customized
More
"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
Order
"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
Progress
"The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed."
Perception
"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
Democracy
"A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community."
Positive
"The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey."
Encouraging
"I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current."
Religion
"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
Democracy
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
Fear
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
Culture
bottom of page