Democracies Quotes

“Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

“In dictatorships the media is controlled by the State. In democracies the media is controlled by wealthy individuals with political affiliations. Objective media and journalists simply do not exist in the mainstream.”
― Robert Black

“La dictature c'est "Ferme ta gueule !", la démocratie c'est "Cause toujours !”
― Coluche

“Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct the pendulum, so that is does not swing too far either way.”
― Robert Black

“It's not all about building police forces and more prisons. This is in a sense an abdication of what the rule of law is and in the same way that simply running to electoral processes has nothing to do with the true building of democracies. There's allot more to democracies then elections and there's allot more to the rule of law then law enforcement.”
― George Stamatis

“Do you want to live under someone else’s life? Nearly everything we get to do is because of politics. Everything else not open to us is because of the politicians. We don’t have much say already. Don’t make it we don’t even get to see”
― George Stamatis

“In the civilized world, there are two democracies, one largest "India" and one smallest stolen land Isreal. Both are mightily violators of human rights, international law, and against the self-determination of the peoples. The biggest achievement is now that our human justice is not anymore blind, it has got eyes and locked-mouth. Congratulations.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“To properly compare democracies to dictatorships we need to consider the real reason democracies were created, that is, to divide the people. Politics only exists in the minds of the people. In reality, all political parties, apart from a few insignificant independents are controlled by the same rich and powerful entities. Therefore, there is essentially no difference between a democracy or a dictatorship. But, I can tell you one thing the Chinese do not waste their time doing, is arguing with their neighbours about which political party they support.”
― Jack Freestone