Citizen Disillusionment Quotes

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

In much of the democratic world, citizens lack any confidence that politicians, political parties, or government officials are serving anyone other than themselves.

The trust of the mass population can no longer be taken for granted.

So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.