This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if…

Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions…

— Ben Sasse

I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on…

— Pierre Trudeau

In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments,…

— Eduardo Galeano

The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food…

— Sam Kass

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were…

— Dwight Schultz

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off…

— Newt Gingrich

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate…

— Charles Stross

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

— Erich Fromm

“Maybe you cannot be the CEO of a multinational corporation, but you can frighten a few people, or cause them to scurry around like…

— Martha Stout

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor…

— Paulo Freire

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

— Joseph Wambaugh

I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I…

— Pierre Trudeau

It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in…

— Henry Rosovsky

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of…

— Frank Prochaska