2,003 Quotes About Democracy

We didn't trudge through 3.5 billion years of evolution, so that we could carry on with the same freaking acts of recklessness and selfishness as we used to in the jungle.

People hold the reins of reform, not politicians.

There is no chance of welfare in the society, unless the conditions of the working class are improved.

In the past few centuries what was once the European and then the American periphery became the core of the world economy,” writes Financial Times analyst Martin Wolf. “Now, the economies of the periphery are re-emerging as the core. This is transforming the entire world … this is far and away the biggest single fact about our world.

If you treat the constitution the same way fundamentalists treat the bible, you are going to have a very sick society on your hands.

We must treat the practice of politics the same way we treat the practice of medicine. Unskilled politicians have no more place in politics than unskilled doctors have in medicine. And to make sure that only skilled individuals are permitted by law to run for office, we must include training and licensing into our current democratic paradigm. Otherwise democracy will remain a rule of the halfwits, by the halfwits, for the halfwits till kingdom come.

If a government is born of merit and character, they would not need pressure from humanitarians and activists to reform its out-of-date policies - they would do it on their own, because they are accountable.

Every failure shapes our life if we pick to learn, however, in the political circus yet we see our leaders throwing dirt on each other rather than man up to show us the way forward.

Scapegoating and boasts from the mouthpieces of our political elites and rulers have eternally dogged us over the questions of a dysfunctional corrupt system, fractured economy and failed egalitarianism.