Sukarno Quotes

Conflict in free states is the law of life.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.

If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

At some point - I care about charter schools and criminal justice reform and $20 trillion in debt and real growth. At some point, I want to hear that clash of ideas. I don't care if it gets ugly. That's what campaigns are all about.

The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity...

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Violence does even justice unjustly.