Democracy Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“The people who explain politics for a living – the politicians themselves, their advisers, the media who cover them – love to reach conclusions…

— Sasha Issenberg

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's…

— Helmut Kohl

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

— Anonymous

“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” FRANKLIN P. ADAMS”

— C.J. Werleman

As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.

— Jennifer Dunn

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond…

— Frantz Fanon

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

— James A. Baldwin

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom,…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where…

— Bill Maher

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys…

— James A. Baldwin

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as…

— Saul Bellow