The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
quote by Jose Saramago
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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
quote by Al Spalding
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To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
quote by George Soros
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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
quote by Lee R. Raymond
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Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure.
quote by John Conyers
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Advocacy
Casual,
And like the meat and the pot!
A big dream,
And like the gates of love;
But, it rose up! !
And like the corporate institutions,
However, a bank account is what you need on this deal.
Advocacy,
The corporate world,
Accelerate,
And like food, water, medicine and clothes!
But, you are fondly referred to.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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4. World Dreams
World Dreams
I dream of a world
Without want or war
I dream of a people
Who need little more
I dream or a world
Where all killings are banished
With cures for diseases
Where illness has vanished
I dream of a world
Where equality rules
And none of its counties
Are governed by fools
I dream of a world
Where mankind can stand tall
With a mutual respect
And with freedom for all
poem by David Threadgold (2008)
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All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.
quote by Donald Evans
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
quote by Jim DeMint
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Whatever Have the Governed Become?
What ever have the governed become?
Mere puppets fed some grain
Of fancy lies as elections come
As though they lack some needed brain?
What ever end shall the governed be,
Mere numbers on the survey scale?
Pressed upon and taxed so freely
To pay for debts when leaders fail?
Why does the governed keep so silent
Accepting all in meek obedience
When in their hearts Protest is bent
On shouting out their very Conscience?
No, the governed will speak and rule
No more of lies and sheer Deception
Governed we are and we're not fools
We will not cower in the face of Corruption!
poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
quote by Doris Lessing
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A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed.
quote by Dee W. Hock
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The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
quote by Herbert Croly
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International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.
quote by Henri La Fontaine
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
quote by John Acton
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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
quote by Pope John Paul II
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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
quote by John Selden
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Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
quote by Clive Barnes
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