When it is forgotten that the first word of political reason is the recognition of the contingency of the political order, every absurdity proves rational.
— Jacques Rancière
When it is forgotten that the first word of political reason is the recognition of the contingency of the political order, every absurdity proves rational.
— Jacques Rancière
The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses.
John Dewey
#twisdom #democracy
No one is sovereign over meaning.
Michaela Ferguson
#twisdom #freedom
No amount of inter-elite rivalry ever adds up to democratic politics.
Anonymous
#twisdom #politics
A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
Gilles Deleuze
Nonviolence is the same as democracy, which is the same as building community across difference.
A.R.T.
#twisdom #demos #nonviolence
If schools were, in fact, democratic there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy.
Chomsky
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is just because my next door neighbor has never been to college that he is good for me.
Mary Parker Follett
#twisdom #democracy
Self government is a psychological process.
Mary Parker Follett
#twisdom #democracy