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Quotes about democracy
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. (Luxemburg Rosa)
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities. (Luxemburg Rosa)
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. (Luxemburg Rosa)
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. (Luxemburg Rosa)
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. (Luxemburg Rosa)
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa! (Luxemburg Rosa)
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. (Luxemburg Rosa)
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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