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People are very hungry
for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of
something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we
have been seeing over the last several years.
-- Barack
Obama |
| The
environmental movement has led some of the most successful global campaigns in
terms of raising public and political consciousness about the relationship of
environment and development and offering alternatives for better governance at
all levels from community to the international arena.
~ Michele
Perrault |  |
"The Greek word
for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics.
That sums up my conviction on the subject."
Gladys Pyle, Senator (1890-1989)
"'If democracy
and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights
when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom,
for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence,
choice of what work to pursue - control of our lives, in short. And then we wake
up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer
insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what
capitalism is - a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business
leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our
lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.... 'So. We must
challenge. It is time. If self-rule is a fundamental value, if simple justice
is a value, then they are values everywhere, including in the workplace where
we spend so much of our lives'...."
-- Kim Stanley Robinson
I believe that government is
the servant of the people and not their master.
-- David Rockefeller
| 
|
On account of being a democracy
and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a
government four years, no matter what it does.
-- Will
Rogers |
| 
| The
liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private
power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by
a group, or any controlling private power.
~ Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
Let
us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The
ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen
and government officials, but the voters of this country.
~ Franklin
D. Roosevelt
 | But
remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision,
beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually
victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart
of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
-- Arundhati
Roy |
| |
The whole basis of the
United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight,
to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
-- Adlai Stevenson |
Democracy and capitalism
have very different beliefs about the proper distribution of power. One believes
in a completely equal distribution of political power, 'one man, one vote', while
the other believes that it is the duty of the economically fit to drive the unfit
out of business and into economic extinction. 'Survival of the fittest' and inequalities
in purchasing power is what capitalist efficiency is all about. Individuals and
firms become efficient to be rich. To put it in its starkest form, capitalism
is perfectly compatible with slavery. The American South had such a system for
more than two centuries. Democracy is not comparable with slavery.
-- Lester
Thurow
"The
government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the
real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law
or political reform can fill them."
-- Leo
Tolstoy |  |
| “Where every man
in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.”
-- Mark
Twain Patriotism
is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves
it.
-- Mark Twain
| 
|
The government is
merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to
determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who
isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
-- Mark
Twain
“Fifty
percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope
it's the same fifty percent.”
-- Gore Vidal
As
societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise,
not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to
confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own
interests.
-- Gore Vidal
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