Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. Karl Kraus Austrian Writer More Karl Kraus Quotes 9
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 5
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Plato Greek Philosopher More Plato Quotes 3
Information is the currency of democracy. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. H. L. Mencken American Writer More H. L. Mencken Quotes 3
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box. George W. Bush American President More George W. Bush Quotes 3
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. David Herbert Lawrence English Writer More David Herbert Lawrence Quotes 3
Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable. Warren Christopher More Warren Christopher Quotes 2
We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people. Pat Mansard More Pat Mansard Quotes 2
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley English Novelist More Aldous Huxley Quotes 2
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. Herman Melville American Novelist More Herman Melville Quotes 1
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken American Writer More H. L. Mencken Quotes 1
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Ronald Reagan American President More Ronald Reagan Quotes 1
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. Luis Walter Alvarez More Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes 1
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. Jeff Miller American Politician More Jeff Miller Quotes 1
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Simone Weil French Philosopher More Simone Weil Quotes 1
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. H. L. Mencken American Writer More H. L. Mencken Quotes 1
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. Alexander Meiklejohn English Philosopher More Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes 1
Because of their significant and growing numbers, unmarried women can have a profound effect on our democracy. That is, if we can tap into what it is that they care about. Page Gardner More Page Gardner Quotes 1
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman American Activist More Abbie Hoffman Quotes 1
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable. Shimon Peres Israeli Statesman More Shimon Peres Quotes 1
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. Andrew Vachss American Author More Andrew Vachss Quotes 1
You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know. Gwen Ifill American Journalist More Gwen Ifill Quotes 1