Democracy Quote by Owen Jones Download Open image “Genuine democracy is frequently messy, not stage-managed.” — Owen Jones ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Frequently Genuine Messy
Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time… — Rich Galen Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
All government is a mess. Democracy is always messy. It's meant to be messy because smooth, thoughtful, precise, effective government leads to dictatorship. Don't… — Michael Capuano Copy Share Image
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
From a very young age, boys are taught that real men get into fights, say demeaning things about girls and women, show extraordinary athletic… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people back higher taxes on the rich. Yet these are fringe ideas within most of the mainstream media, which marginalises… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
David Cameron set impossible targets and relentlessly portrayed immigration as a social burden while pursuing an economic strategy that suppressed wages. It did not… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We recognise that, like us, other humans have insecurities and ambitions; we fall in love and have relationships that end in heartbreak; we worry… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
