Democratization Quotes

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization. (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)
"[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better. View quote
Anna Wintour
Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution. View quote
Andrei Grechko
Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is. View quote
Robert Redford
That democratization has never closely approached its theoretical limits, either in the government of the state or in the government of other institutions, is revealed in the three great historical movement toward democratizing the state. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Democratization of commerce is based on everyone having the right to exercise their roles as micro consumers, micro producers, micro entrepreneurs, micro investors, and micro innovators. Access to information removes the first impediment to building this brave, new world. Information asymmetry has always been at the heart of poverty. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
Social media spark a revelation that we, the people, have a voice, and through the democratization of content and ideas we can once again unite around common passions, inspire movements, and ignite change. View quote
Brian Solis
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport. View quote
Andrew Young
I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya. View quote
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Talked at lunch with a gentleman just returned from Japan, who told me some disturbing things about the influences behind our policies of extreme democratization and de-concentration of economic life in Japan. Of all the failures of United States policy in the wake of World War II, history will rate as the most grievous our failure to approach realistically the responsibilities of power over the defeated nations which we ourselves courted by the policy of unconditional surrender. (George F. Kennan)
The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy. View quote
Al Gore
The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings. View quote
Daniel Bell
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
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. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in. (Tim O'Reilly)
The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed. View quote
Milos Zeman
We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy. View quote
Bulent Ecevit
The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization. View quote
E. P. Thompson