I Quotes
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“In a democracy, when freedoms are threatened; tyranny must stare down the barrel held by the revolutionary rebellion.”
“In a democracy when poverty and a declining middle-class exceed more than half the population, crime, revolution, and death is on the horizon.”
“In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don’t ever stop, don’t ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don’t behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!”
“In a democracy, where electors grant license to elected representatives to violate the oath of office; and continually reelect them, freedoms and liberties progressively erode for all.”
“In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.”
“In a democracy, you cannot blame only a leading leader but also the entire leadership, including the voters’ choice, if the party fails to fulfill its promises.
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What are the attributes of a leader?
When the nation understands and realizes that, it blocks the route for the leadership, with the foresight, upon dishonest, rude, and immoral ones. Otherwise, the rope of idiocy remains in the hands of idiots.
The day you vote is an opportunity to vote not for a leader but for a party manifesto and constructive thoughts and plans. Indeed, you will have good fortune, a bright and joyful social status, and prosperity will always be a part of your society and life.
You are the real leader of the universe if you also lead the hearts and not just the minds. The mind keeps the knowledge while the heart showers the fragrance of love towards the soul; it is the base and circle of the knowledge.
A leader doesn’t mean to have governmental power; it means to lead its people on the right, secure, equal, fair, and visionary way of life.
Be a leader, not a lawyer and judge, not an official; express party program(me) honestly for the nation and face all the challenges before accusing, abusing, and blaming others. Indeed, it shows dignity and venerable leadership.
The opposition leaders and those in power can keep reputable the four pillars of democracy in the context of constitutional duties, transparent justice, truth, and honesty; they can also discredit those by their wrong character and fallacious decisions and deeds.
Real and true leader neither has a special status nor contradict others.
If he keeps the distance in any way or shape
If he says things that don’t exist
If he brings you in a destructive direction
If he what promises, but do not keep his words
If he put you naked in the open sky and himself in a comfortable tent
If he gives you false hopes rather than the practical helping
He is just an opportunist, a cheater, and a liar but not a leader.
Promises of the leader before the election build expectations in the minds of voters, and after winning the election, those cause humiliation in the eyes of voters if the leader fails to fulfill them. Therefore, fly not so high that you cannot land easily; be honest with yourself.
Political leadership is a significant spirit and defense of the armed forces of any state, whereas the armed forces are a protective shield for them. Both are compulsory for each other, as the political leadership has one point, and the armed forces have zero points, which becomes ten points. Otherwise, it stays one or zero, establishing nothing.
A selfish and empty of vision and solution leadership prefers its own political and personal benefits and interests instead of its people; indeed, it collapses in the face of ruffians and traitors of the constitution. As a reality, such a state and all institutions face conspiracies in global affairs; consequently, diplomatic isolation and trade failure become destiny; it leads towards destruction with self-adopted strategy and character.”
“In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.”
Source: Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee
“In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.”
“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.”
“In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.”
“In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.”
“In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?”
Source: First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
“In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.”
“In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government. Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day. Ever since I took office, my friends in the opposition have been levelling baseless allegations about my foreign trips. Had these trips been a failure, then they would have based their comments on specific issues. When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success!”
“In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.”
“In a democracy, if people don't have accurate information, how can they be active citizens? How can they be part of the debate? And if you are facing powerful forces on the right and in Trump administration who want to create an alternative reality that feeds into their objectives for our country, you more than ever need the press to cut through that, and to be as accurate as possible.”
“In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.”
“In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.”
“In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!”
“In a democracy, power is not permanent.”
“In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.”
“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”
“In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.”
“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.”
“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris
“In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen”
“In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.”
“In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.”
“In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.”
“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.”
“In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.”
“In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.”
“In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!”
“In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.”
“In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.”
“In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.”
Source: Collected Works
“In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.”
“In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“In a democratic system, the medium of dialogue is the best medium for not allowing the debate to become a dispute.”
“In a dependent relationship, the protégé can always control the protector by threatening to collapse.”
Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
“In a deregulated America, it is a wise person that avoids ‘Made in USA’ products.”
“In a deserted stretch of the Karadj highway Munis had come face-to-face with unbridled lust, although she knew what lust was before being touched by it. The problem was that she had an unbounded awareness of things, an awareness that instilled undue caution in her, making her fearful that action would lead to ignominy, humiliation. This created in her a desire to be ordinary, average. Yet she did not truly know what it meant to be ordinary. She did not know that it meant not loving an earthworm, not genuflecting at the altar of withered leaves, not standing in prayer at the call of a lark, not climbing a mountain to see the sunrise, not staying awake all night to gaze at the Ursa Major. She did not differentiate between earth and gravel, but she distinguished the earth from the sky. She had not seen the skies of the earth, but she knew there were earths of the sky. She saw herself in an inevitable process of stagnation. She was already partially rotten within.
"What can I do with this mass of trivial knowledge?" she wondered aloud. "How can I cut through it?”
Source: Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.”
Source: Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
“In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people is fear, by the servile dread of his power. But a free government, which of all others is far the most preferable, cannot be supported without virtue.”
“In a deteriorating culture it is amazing to me that we will try all sorts of soil, apply water as generously as we possibly can. and tediously dote over every seedling. Yet we adamantly refuse to accept the fact that if the seeds are bad, the rest won’t matter.”
“In a dictatorship, every election is faked and everybody seems to know it except for the dictator. In a democracy it is the politicians that are rigged.”
Source: To Life from the Shadows
“In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.”
“In a different life, in a fair one, I would've kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust”
Source: Phantasma