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Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
NEURONAUTIC INSTITUTE on-line: http://home.earthlink.net/~thew
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Subject: Fwd: [Zero] Gandhi on Democracy
DEMOCRACY
Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving
sometimes a war to the knife between different ideas.
The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied
interests which compose the nation.
Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly
abused.
Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let
not democracy
degenerate into mobocracy.
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the
other side.
Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.
The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from
within.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same
opportunity as the strongest.
To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence,
self-respect and their oneness.
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness are taboo in all good society and are
surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or
herself.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism,
whether governmental or popular.
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy,
as they undoubtedly are today.
~Mahatma Gandhi
