Democracy Quotes

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

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.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Information is the currency of democracy.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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.

Without a free and independent media, true democracy is unattainable.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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.

We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

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.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

I like the noise of democracy.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.