Participatory Governance Quotes

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

A much better course would be a gradual development of democracy, not through general elections, but rather through civil society and the strengthening of local institutions.

In a democratic society...Islam cannot be the exclusive preserve of the ulama [religious bodies]. How can it be when Islamic laws affect our very way of life? The decision-making process must be participatory and must reflect the diverse and changing nature of Malaysian society. Those practices and legal provisions that give the ulama the sole power to decide on matters of religion and criminalize those with differing opinions must be abrogated. The Constitution must be amended to ensure uniformity of laws and one standard of justice for all. If the ulama continue to remain oblivious to the palpable change that pervades a quickly modernizing, multi-ethnic Malaysia, they run the risk of making themselves increasingly irrelevant to the lives of their people.

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

The best revenge is democracy.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

It is my plan to lead the RSC as a member-driven organization which puts forth positions developed through member participation and dialogue consistent with the RSC's mission and the U.S. Constitution.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways to achieve them according to their own choice.

The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.

From the beginning of my episcopacy, I made up my mind to do nothing on my own private opinion, without your advice and without the consent of the people.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

We will work on inclusive governance for inclusive growth