D Quotes
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“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.”
“Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.”
“Democracy is that system of government and that economic and social organization in which the worth of the individual human being and the multiple loyalties of that individual are the most fully recognized and provided for. Democracy is a system of government in which we recognize that all normal individuals have a whole series of loyalties—loyalties to their churches, their labor unions, their fraternal organizations, their social groups, their nationality groups, their athletic groups, their political parties, and many others.
Democracy provides for the fulfillment of the hopes and loyalties of our people to all of the various institutions and groups of which they are a part. It is not a single, unqualified, primary loyalty to the state, as the totalitarians would have it—a loyalty in which all other institutions and organizations are completely swept out of the picture. Under totalitarianism, you may be loyal to your church if your state decrees that you may be. But it is a loyalty by sufferance of the state.”
Source: Reveille for Radicals
“democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.”
Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.”
Source: The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004
“Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.”
Source: Private Property, Law, and the State
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Democracy is the best chance for the best people.”
“Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government”
“Democracy is the best revenge.”
“Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.”
“Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.”
“Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.”
“Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.”
“Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.”
“Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.”
“Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
Source: Cool memories
“Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.”
“Democracy is the most overrated concept of our generation and is perhaps the most advertised export product under the made in US label. It is the easiest to tackle, but difficult to practice.”
“Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.”
“Democracy is the most vile form of government.”
“Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.”
“Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
“Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959
“Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds”
“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”
“Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.”
“Democracy is the process to elect the Government of the Upper class or caste people, by the poor people and for the corporate people - Idiotneil”
“Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is as it ought to be and the people live in freedom and comfort. But this was not achieved until recent centuries.”
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is a letter to the editor. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn't been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It's the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.”
Source: On Democracy
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.”
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
“Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.”
“Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.”
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
“Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.”
Source: Toward a better world
“Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.”
“Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.”
“Democracy is to have different ideas, even extreme ones. In democracy there is space for all of them and bridges to connect them. In Turkey we are losing those bridges, and everyone is trying to destroy spaces for the opposite side. When we look at this, Istanbul is like different courtyards divided by big, thick walls.”
“Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.”
“Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.”
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”