The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of moral clarity and aligning international policies with democratic values to promote democracy worldwide.
Natan Sharansky's quote underlines two critical actions that can foster democracy globally: restoring a sense of moral clarity in international relations and ensuring that global policies are tied to the promotion of democratic standards. It suggests that without a clear moral compass, efforts to spread democracy will lack authenticity and impact. Additionally, linking international policy directly to the advancement of democracy is presented as vital for creating sustainable democratic institutions across the world.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about democracy at a political rally.
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
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The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers.
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