Quotes About Promoting Democracy

#1. When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.

Evgeny Morozov

#2. From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Kofi Annan

#3. Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.

Daniel Yankelovich

#4. After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

Stephen Kinzer

#5. We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

Sergei Lavrov

#6. I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#7. Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

Mo Hayder

#8. I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

Vic Fuentes

#9. Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Clare Boothe Luce

#10. The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.

Andrew Lansley

#11. An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

Nelson Mandela

#12. When you die, there is nothing
only a life that will be forgotten."
-from "Gathering Ashes

Yasunari Kawabata

#13. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

Kiera Cass

#14. I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

Tara Bray Smith

#15. How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

PureDragonWolf

#16. Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings.

Reinhard Bonnke

#17. Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.

Selena Gomez

#18. The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.

Heather Marsh

#19. The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

Chuck Hagel

#20. We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Bob Menendez

#21. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.

Seneca.

#22. Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own.
Life doesn't need magic to be magical.
(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

Laini Taylor

#23. You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Sara Gruen

#24. Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.

Paul David Tripp