Quotes & Sayings About Participating In Democracy

We must make democracy the popular creed ... If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer ... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle. — Aung San Suu Kyi

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole. — Joseph Beuys

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

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it. — Fred Reed

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us. — Cecily McMillan

I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on and how much secrecy and transparency there should be. That's an on-going thing - in a democracy you want checks and balances and oversight, but you need a covert agency to protect the country. It's a very tricky balance and I think it changes as the world changes and I think we all need to be mindful of that. — Matt Damon