William Greider Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

• If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.

  William Greider

  Peace, Destiny, Self

• The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

  William Greider

  People, Democracy, Problem

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

• Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

  William Greider

  Ideas, Democracy, Captives

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

• Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

  William Greider

  Honesty, People, Perfect

  William Greider (1992). “Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy”

• Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

  William Greider

  Democracy, World, Teach

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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