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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. View quote
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. View quote
Aristotle
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. View quote
Gore Vidal
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. View quote
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. View quote
James Baldwin
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. View quote
William Beveridge
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. View quote
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. View quote
Bob Dylan
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. View quote
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. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. View quote
Learned Hand
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone. View quote
Miloš Forman