#demo

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all. ↗

— Michael Palin

#competition #democracy #equality #poor #poverty

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#equality #equality

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#equality #life-balance #motivation #productivity #time

ignorance is the enemy of democracy ↗

— Thomas Jeferson

#freedom

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being. ↗

— Karl Popper

#freedom

the government bailed out the corporate sector. while the people thay supported the government financally, were ignored and left to fend for themselves. is this what you call democracy? ↗

— Jeffrey Fischer

#freedom #marxism #freedom

you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation. ↗

— Jeffrey Fischer

#marxism #freedom

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time ↗

— J.R. Ortiz

#freedom #love #freedom

What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy? ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#freedom #institutions #freedom

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them." [Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945] ↗

— George Orwell

#freedom #freedom-of-speech #liberty #minorities #persecution