"In the democratic vision, the freedom achieved by a democratic order is above all the freedom of self-determination in
making collective and binding decisions: self-determination of citizens who have the right to participate
as political equals in making the rules and laws according to which they will live together as citizens".
- Robert Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics, 1989 "Rights that do not flow from duty well done are not worth having."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi “There is no single model of democracy, or of human rights, or of cultural expression for all the world.
But for all the world, there must be democracy, human rights, and free cultural expression.”
- Kofi Annan, Fiftieth anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1997
