Garry Kasparov Quotes

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

Israel was established in 1948. Then, the average income in Palestine was lower than in Egypt, for example. Today, 55 years after the establishment of Israel, the average income in Israel is 15 times higher than in Egypt. Israel fought all same wars as the Arabs and Egyptians. How come it continued to progress to the point it has become a technological force to be reckoned with? The reason is that it's a democracy.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

Modernity and moderation is what we need in Egypt.

For development, peace is essential.

We stand with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and prosperity.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

I would just like the people of Yugoslavia to live good.

Peace is a pre-requisite for development.

When people are healthy, their families, communities and countries thrive.

We cannot grow jobs without investment; we cannot grow economies if we don't earn.

Filipinos should need no longer kill fellow Filipinos. With peace, real progress can touch all corners of the country.

Once there was a need for people like me to fight, to put things in order. Now we have order and prosperity.

People of Pakistan want only development, prosperity, and peace.

From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.