Irvine Welsh Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.

  Irvine Welsh

  Technology, Government, People

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• In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

  Irvine Welsh

  America, Democracy, Principles

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• Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

  Irvine Welsh

  Giving Up, Democracy, Want

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• If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.

  Irvine Welsh

  Media, Long, People

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• You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're supposed to be against ISIS, so why are we trying to slowly introduce a country-club version of Sharia law in America, you know? It doesn't make any real sense at all. I think there's going to be a lot of energy, there is already a lot of reaction against that - people are prepared to really stand up and be counted for democracy, and in the process to find out what is and what isn't.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Eye, Thinking, Media

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• In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Moving, Thinking, America

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