Danny Glover Quotes

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Government is everywhere to a great extent controlled by powerful minorities, with an interest distinct from that of the mass of the people.

Under universal suffrage the elected are those who know best how to take in the masses. The minority, which may happen to be the half minus one, is sacrificed.

If you give up on politics, you give up on democracy … and then we are absolute plutocracy.

We pride ourselves on our democracy, but when you see the way it actually works, I think it is worthy of contempt.

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The conception of political equality can mean only one thing—one person–one vote.

The Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic.

If voting could change anything, they would have made it illegal.

One man shall have one vote.

Wherever you have votes, you have power.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

Democratic processes require time.

The essential objection to democracy is that, with few exceptions, it imposes degrading acts and attitudes upon the men responsible for the welfare and dignity of the state.

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.