Alfonso Cuaron Quotes

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Do not believe just because you want to believe.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

I am such a political person.

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.