Read through the most famous quotes by topic #democracies
History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. ↗
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. ↗
In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. ↗
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗
We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships. ↗
#dictatorships #implant #now #where
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. ↗
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ↗
#control #democracies #exercised #ideological #indoctrination
