Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection. ”

Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars. ”

Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day. ”

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. ”

Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse. ”

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere. ”

What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business. ”

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism. ”

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. ”

Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere. ”