Best democracy & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.”

Source: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World

“The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.”

Action Used United Numbers Democracy Danger Weapons Institutions Noble Innocent Flight Symbols Heroic Crew Recognizing Airline Passengers Large Numbers Aircraft American Democracy

Author:Arlen Specter

“In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.”

People Ideas Action Opinion Democracy Generations Islam Conspiracy Iranian Deviate

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.”

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Author:Sam Farr

“But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.”

Action Democracy Luminous Present Day Democracies Have Pretext

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of the people: in our case, with the President and the Congress. If these two follow economic policies inimical to the general welfare, they are accountable to the people for their actions on election day. With Federal Reserve independence, however, a body of men exist who control one of the most powerful levers moving the economy and who are responsible to no one.”

“What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.”

Long Art Would Be Action America Political Culture Democracy Activism Senses Political Action Political Activism

Author:Ian Svenonius

“Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.”

People Shows Able Action Democracy

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.”

Action Individual Liberty Opinion Democracy Guarded Individual Liberty Jealously

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this.”

“There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing.”

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Author:Pascal Bruckner

“To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.”

Feels Heart Stills Action Form Speak Consciousness Moral Democracy Gratitude Conscience Consequence Abundance Have Faith Invites Disobedience Civil Disobedience Moral Action

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.”

Art Action Form Can Do Democracy Rocks Ultimate Rock And Roll Populist

Book:Blondie

Source: Blondie

“There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.”

People Important Action Courses Nations Differences Numbers Democracy Achieve Findings Tasks Sufficient Permit Better Life

Author:Robert McNamara

“Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.”

Ifs Action Political Term Democracy Driven Debate Traditional Obedience Apathy Arena General Public Political Debates

Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.”

People Action Order Black White Democracy Security Mass Organization Majority South Campaigns Establishment Black And White South Africa Defiance Apartheid Peace And Security

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.”

Country Action Democracy Nazi Pacifist Pacifism

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“America is governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the President of the United States or anybody else can just set aside for the sake of expediency Even when we are deeply supportive of Turkish democracy, and even when we care deeply about any attempts to overthrow their government or any other illegal actions, we've got to go through a legal process.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.”

“The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.”

Kind Action Values Democracy Independence Violent Non Violent

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“We are a representative democracy. But how did we get there? We got there through direct action. And that's enshrined in our Constitution and in our values.”

Action Values Democracy Direct Constitution Representatives Direct Action

Author:Edward Snowden

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