D Quotes
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“Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.”
“Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.”
“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal”
“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.”
“Democracy on Drugs, Sonnet (Operation Opium)
Revolution a day keeps corruption away,
freethinking days prevent genocidal nights.
Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs,
paranoia is lifeblood for power-hungry parasites.
Parasites thrive on gaslighting neighbors,
peaceful coexistence is a threat to political power.
Politicians remain safe through war and drought,
it's the people who pay with blood, money and tears.
Parasites don't have nationality,
parasites don't have religion,
parasites only have a bottomless hunger
to keep the throne by calculated cleansing.
Nationalism has nothing to do with culture,
fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion.
Win a war, lose a war, politicians lose nothing,
living off domesticated sheep comatosed by opium.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Democracy, once the voice of the people, has become a demo of craziness, not freedom. It echoes with noise, not wisdom — a chorus of chaos drowning out reason.”
“Democracy only works well if a very large chunk is highly educated, and the world free of deception.”
“Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.”
“Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.”
“Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.”
“Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.”
“Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.”
Source: Public Library and Other Stories
“Democracy passes into despotism.”
“democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.”
“Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.”
“Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion”
“Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.”
“Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.”
“Democracy rules, you know. We have
freedom of expression, or so
we are told, yet our lips are sealed with
unspoken threats.”
Source: The way it is
“Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!”
“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.”
Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
“Democracy should be nurtured and sustained in Nigeria and in our part of the world”
“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.”
“Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.”
“Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it”
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
“Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.”
“Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.”
“Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.”
“Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.”
“Democracy that shows no sign of nonpartisanism, is but a petri dish of prejudice most blinding.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.”
“Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.”
“Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.”
“Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.”
“Democracy wants to win by reason, not by arms or by any other material damage, because, look, I don't have to remind you that I am totally for peace. It is my greatest dream. It was and will remain so.”
“Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.”
“Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.”
“Democracy was never anything but a contingent hodge podge of basis thoughts haphazardly slapped together in the minds of starry-eyed philosophers who infinitely outweighed the value of Mob Man's voice to that of The Genius.”
Source: The Swarm
“Democracy was never inherited. Every generation will have to decide whether to choose or lose it.”
Source: The Last Year of Democracy: How Democracy Fails, Betrays the People, and the Constitution Crumbles—and How Citizens Can Resist Authoritarianism, ... Political Polarization
“Democracy was NEVER inherited. It was borrowed - from the past, the present, and the future. But now, the world is in default.”
Source: The Last Year of Democracy: How Democracy Fails, Betrays the People, and the Constitution Crumbles—and How Citizens Can Resist Authoritarianism, ... Polarization
“Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.”
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.”
“Democracy wasn't a set of dry documents nicely laid out on office stationary - it brimmed in the lips of thousands of souls and debated in dozens of accents as it crossed the street from one neighborhood to the next. It was the smell of stale coffee and bodies packed into an old community center. It was the typos in the fliers. It was exasperation, realization, illumination - a knockdown, drag out, sweaty, tearful, impassioned process of people making decisions together.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”
“Democracy: where the semi-literate make laws and the illiterate enforce them.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Democracy will be dead by 1950.”
Source: A short history of the future
“Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.”
“Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects