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Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.


Fiona Shaw


#also #area #around #century #democracy

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.


Peter Singer


#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite.


Peter Singer


#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact

In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.


Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa


#ambassador #christian #context #democracy #establishing

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.


Ron Kind


#constitutional #constitutional government #democracy #government #judicial

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.


Jack Kingston


#democracy #ethiopia #infancy #leaders #must

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.


Jeane Kirkpatrick


#conviction #democracy #each #equal #equality

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.


George Weah


#believe #come #control #country #democracy

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.


Bertrand Russell


#citizens #democracy #eloquence #immunity #importance






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