Democracy Quotes

“Some men (fewer women) are solitary, unattached to any particular place or institution, most comfortable not exactly alone but in the presence of strangers.”
― Joan Didion, Democracy

“Water under the bridge and dynamite it behind you.”
― Joan Didion, Democracy

“I WAS trained to distrust other people’s versions, but we go with what we have.

We triangulate the coverage.
Handicap for bias.
Figure in leanings, predilections, the special circumstances which change the spectrum in which any given observer will see a situation.

Consider what filter is on the lens. So to speak.”
― Joan Didion, Democracy

“The newspapers, censored, managed to report these rumors by carrying stories in which they deplored the spreading of rumors, or, as the newspapers put it, the propagation of falsehoods detrimental to public security. In order to deplore the falsehoods it was of course necessary to detail them, which was the trick.”
― Joan Didion, Democracy

“By 'the long view' I believe she meant history. Or more exactly, the particular undertow of having and not having, the convulsions of a world largely unaffected by the individual efforts of anyone in it, that Inez's experience had tended to deny.”
― Joan Didion, Democracy