Democracy quotation

«The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.»

Mahatma Gandhi

To better understand this quotation we need to “dig deeper” in the democracy’s history, we need to know what exactly democracy meant back then in the beginning of this called “Democracy era”.

According to the definition, democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political power ( for example every citizen has the right to vote and thus participate in all the political decisions).

However nowadays we face a completely different democracy where all the citizens are being blinded by the higher property corporation. According to Keith Olbermann, democracy is being controlled by the economical power.

What Mahatma Gandhi said was a very deep and philosophical quotation because as we all know very few of us have the moral value to respect others' opinion. Politicians, for example, as soon as they reach their goals they forget about every single man that saw in them a “light at the end of the tunnel”.

Mahatma Gandhi was completely and absolutely right when he said that democracy does not consist of mechanical things. Democracy is something that comes from within the person’s heart and personality because only then democracy becomes something pure and truthful.

And that’s why democracy can only function when the person’s heart is changed for the better, you have to want it in order to have something beautiful and functional for all the society.

Gandhi (1982) Full Movie

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Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both won Academy Awards for their work on the film. The film was also given the Academy Award for Best Picture and won eight Academy Awards.

It was an international co-production between production companies in India and the UK. The film premiered in New Delhi on 30 November 1982.

famous quotes

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by Mahatma Gandhi:

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.  (attributed to M. Gandhi)

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

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Einstein on Gandhi:

• «I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time.» (source)

• "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as Gandhi ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."(source)

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by Martin Luther King Jr. :
  

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. 

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