Democracy Illusion Quotes

#1. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.

John Dunn

#2. You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

Glenn Greenwald

#3. Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.

Charlotte Casiraghi

#4. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#5. Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Arthur Miller

#6. Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Judith M Bardwick

#7. Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

A.E. Samaan

#8. The failure to read the Holy Bible leads to spiritual depletion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

Craig Rice

#10. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Richard Baxter

#12. People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

Isabel Burton