Quote by Laurie Penny Download Open image ““The comments section is now alive and chewing at the heart of Western democracy.”” — Laurie Penny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The sterile democracy between the notes has killed in us every lively feeling.” — Arvo Pärt Copy Share Image
Each day I wake up and check the news. Nearly every day it's merely to make sure I did not miss anything wildly controversial.… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Welcome, my dear, to the Western world, land of democracy, freedom, and bigotry.” — J. Nozipo Maraire Copy Share Image
“Soft citizens of the American democracy learned to kick a man below the belt and make the bastard scream. ” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad,… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“People's capacity for turning dogmatic stupidity into political movements never ceased to amaze me. We've knocked off 99.9% of the human race and somehow… — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“As we watched, the regulations imposed by our government, churches, and press; combined to establish our country’s new internal warfare. Fought on the podiums,… — James W. Scott Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump is a bloviating freakshow of the id whose job it is to articulate the ugliest parts of the modern psyche with enough… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It has been noted that many of the soi-disant ‘disruptive’ products being marketed as game changers by Silicon Valley startup kids are things that… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Men, particularly nerdy men, are socialised to blame women – usually their peers and/or the women they find sexually desirable – for the trauma… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“At seventy-one, when I met her, she was small and delicate and dangerous, like a cupcake full of razors.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.” — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“It is not elitist to look fascism in the face and reject it. It is not anti-democratic to carry on believing in a society… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“I’m sure that Trump wants to sit in a shiny chair in the Oval Office and have people tell him all day that he’s… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
