Quotes About Participatory Democracy

#1. This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

Danny Glover

#2. This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

George Takei

#3. In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#4. Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

Frank Prochaska

#6. And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike.

Kwame Alexander

#8. But whatever regrets she had, she would have to live with them. Regrets never did anyone any good.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.

Adrian McKinty

#10. Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

Paul Auster

#11. And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?

Jacqueline Winspear

#12. A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Casey Affleck

#13. I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

Ice Cube

#14. With the end of empire, we are coming to an end of the epoch of rights. We have entered the epoch of responsibilities, which requires new, more socially-minded human beings and new, more participatory and place-based concepts of citizenship and democracy.

Grace Lee Boggs

#15. A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Mark McKinnon

#16. A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

#17. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

Cory Booker

#18. What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan