Action Quote by Tony Benn

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small…

— James Madison

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for…

— Heinz Galinski

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

— Jordi Cuixart

“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That…

— Mick Hume

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled…

— Henry Giroux

“The only realistic way to change things is direct participation in democracy.”

— Jón Gnarr

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

There is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be…

— Robert McNamara

Democracy demands sacrifice. Democracy demands that the rules of the game be respected just as the constitution requires.

— Jovenel Moise

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,…

— James Madison