Democracy Quotes - Page 22

• I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Journey, Pieces

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• If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Voters, Want, Argument

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• Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

  Hal Draper

  Fighting, Able, Levels

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• We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to democracy. We have political democracy but not economic democracy.

  Anker Jørgensen

  Political, Economic, Stills

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• The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

  Ricardo Semler

  Using People, Practice, Tools

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• What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Running, People, Culture

  "MBA: Mostly bloody awful". "Background Briefing" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. March 29, 2009.

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• The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce a new economy, and thereby a new society, after capitalism.

  Seymour Melman

  Promise, Workplace, Historic

  Seymour Melman (2001). “After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy”, Knopf

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• Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

  Harold Innis

  Defeat, Economics, Genre

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• Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Citizens

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Essence, Environmental

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Power

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Philosophy, Political, Together

  Notes for a Speech on Socialism, 1848.

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• I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

  James Lovelock

  War, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with The Guardian, March 29, 2010.

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• Large-scale hog producers are a greater threat to the United States and U.S. democracy than Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  United States, Global Warming, Osama Bin Laden

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• Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Money, Community, Decision

  Noam Chomsky (1990). “On Power and Ideology”, p.6, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Common Folk, Boss

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Women, Party, Opportunity

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• I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just like it was when Americans fought and died to bring independence, democracy, and freedom to the United States. It's not something you can sit back and wait for someone to give to you voluntarily.

  Nien Cheng

  Women, Thinking, Blood

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• Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Women, Majority Rule, Numbers

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.7, Penn State Press

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• Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

  Eve Curie

  Women, Way, Faces

  Eve Curie (1940). “The Price of Freedom”

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• Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

  Jeannette Rankin

  Women, Home, Rights

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• We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Women

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• But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.

  Violeta Chamorro

  Strikes, Ifs

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• I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Women, Believe

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• Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

  Uta Hagen

  Women, Moving, Taken

  Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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