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Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.