All Quotes By Tag: Democracy
“Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.”
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“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”
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“People drink democracy in a glass of teabut night falls, again.”
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“What do you want to be when you grow up,” asked the goat her ambitious lamb.” A wolf,” answered the lamb.”
“In a democracy government is the God.”
“State first, subject second, statesman last.”
“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.”
“People will never get in touch with democracy. It’s always surrounded by bodyguards.”
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”
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“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.”
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“Defenceless under the nightOur world in stupor lies;Yet, dotted everywhere,Ironic points of lightFlash out wherever the JustExchange their messages:May I, composed like themOf Eros and of dust,Beleaguered by the sameNegation and despair,Show an affirming flame.”
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“The crucial lesson of Brexit and of Trump’s victory, is that leaders who are seen as representing the failed neoliberal status quo are no match for the demagogues and neo-fascists. Only a bold and genuinely redistributive progressive agenda can offer real answers to inequality and the crises in democracy…We need to remember this the next time we’re asked to back a party or candidate in an election. In this destabilized era, status-quo politicians often cannot get the job done. On the other hand, the choice that may at first seem radical, maybe even a little risky, may well be the most pragmatic one in this volatile era…radical political and economic change is our only hope of avoiding radical change to our physical world.”
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