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Alberto Alemanno

Lobbying for Change

  • aanyi33bohas quoted7 months ago
    Powerlessness has a profound effect on our physiology and mental capacity.1
  • aanyi33bohas quoted7 months ago
    ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’

    Edmund Burke
  • aanyi33bohas quoted7 months ago
    providing a counterweight to special interests, citizen lobbyists can improve the quality of policymaking.
  • aanyi33bohas quoted7 months ago
    You just need passion for your cause and the ability to communicate it.
  • aanyi33bohas quoted8 months ago
    Voting is the most familiar and widely touted form of citizen participation.
  • aanyi33bohas quoted8 months ago
    Paralysed by the hyperactivity of our daily lives, devalued by the educational system and bamboozled by the arrogant rhetoric of many politicians, we are discouraged from believing that ordinary citizens have a role to play in changing the status quo.
  • aanyi33bohas quoted8 months ago
    We are spectators, not actors. Consumers, not citizens.
  • aanyi33bohas quoted8 months ago
    We feel stuck. And we really are stuck, both as individuals and as a society, as we retreat into ever-smaller circles of ‘friends’, ‘likers’ and ‘followers’ within which we feel in control.
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