A Quote by Zephyr Teachout

When elections are not democratic, even the most populist discussions become superficial, disconnected from real power; they are theatre.

Zephyr Teachout

Quote Topics

Become Democratic Disconnected Discussions Elections Even Most Populist Power Real Real Power Superficial Theatre

Quote Author

Zephyr Teachout
American - Lawyer
Born: October 24, 1971

The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How about us, when do we get it, when do we make our move? And you have a situation where someone has been in power for decades, where the integrity of elections, democracy and security have really not been debated or discussed and most people suspect that elections are rigged and that the democratic rotation that elections are supposed to ensure doesn't really happen. And when this goes on for a while you are sitting on a powder keg.

Kofi Annan

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

Dario Fo

I'm not for seizing power, I'm for justice in the country and for democratic elections.

Ksenia Sobchak

The Democrats want a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrants so they can become Democratic voters in a few years - and some Democrats even argue that non-citizens ought to be able to vote in U.S. elections.

Charlie Kirk

Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

James Baldwin

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.

Wolfgang Tillmans

If the opposition wants power they must participate in democratic elections and win the vote of the people.

Jovenel Moise

There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that is leading to experimenting with different models that are much less democratic. But even in Western Europe the deficit is a problem.

Mary Robinson

The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

Simon Bolivar

Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies.

Richard N. Haass

We want perfect elections, not just any kind of elections. And it's the electoral commission that organizes elections in the country - this is what most people forget. We have an independent commission which, acccording to our constitution, is in charge of organizing elections.

Joseph Kabila

Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

Todd Young

What I learned growing up in Red Mountain Theatre Company is real power and time management and how to represent myself well. How to show up earlier and stay later. Red Mountain Theatre Company, in my opinion, is the most incredible theater conservatory in the world.

Jordan Fisher

Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and suspicious of democratic institutions.

Anne Applebaum

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Renata Adler

A Quote by Zephyr Teachout

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors