Democracies Have Quotes - Page 10

• So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Political, Democracy, Identity

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.

  Adrian Grenier

  Thinking, Opportunity, Always Trying

  "Adrian Grenier: Producer and Entourage Actor Talks About the Lonely Whale". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Powerful, Democracy, Cuba

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Military, People, Democracy

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

  Randal Marlin

  Democracy, Action, Pretext

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.45, Broadview Press

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• It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Law, Giving

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.175, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.

  Tony Kushner

  Government, Talking, Democracy

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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• Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

  Paul Johnson

  Enemy, Democracy, Terrorist

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• American democracy has been hacked.

  Al Gore

  Democracy, Hacked, Has Beens

  Al Gore (2017). “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis”, p.182, Rodale

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