2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Freedom is overrated. You can be completely free and starving in an igloo in Antarctica. Business is what makes people’s lives better, not democracy. The world is filled with dysfunctional democracies, paralyzed by idiots with votes.

The hoops one has to jump through to win an election creates highly compromised leaders.

At its heart, socialism is about the creation of a new society, built from the bottom up, through the struggles of ordinary working people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice—one that eliminates profit and power as the prime goals of life, and instead organizes our world around the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.

The ancient Athenians were determined to free the people from the plutocrats. Now freedom has been replaced by freedumb, and the only freedom the people have is to choose this consumer item rather than that one. Whatever one they choose, they make the rich richer, and the boot on their neck grows ever more forceful.

Militaries torture children to ‘keep people safe’ and corporations destroy the environment to ‘give you jobs’.

Power is never benevolent and never inert. Where it exists in great excess, atrocities always exist in great excess as well.

Information freedom is the freedom to access, participate in, understand and benefit from knowledge creation. This includes access to raw data, transparent auditing processes which include both elite knowledge and complete and immediate feedback from user groups and anyone else impacted, and interpretation which flows directly from the audit without interference from coercive manipulation.

Knowledge needs to be recognized as a human right. Without knowledge, our actions are not our own; we are coerced to act in someone else’s interest.

I gruppi di potere sono in grado di difendersi e secondo gli standard dei media il fatto che la loro posizione e i loro diritti vengano minacciati costituisce scandalo. Al contrario, finché illegalità e violazione dei principi democratici colpiscono gruppi marginali [...] l'opposizione dei media è completamente assente.