Democratisation Quotes

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

Social media has democratised platforms of expression so much - now a child can have a very loud voice.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

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

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.