Democracy Quotes - page 2

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. (Gustave Flaubert)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis Brandeis
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emil Cioran
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve. (Edward Albee)
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
James Baldwin
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (H. L. Mencken)
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.
Miloš Forman