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“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.”
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”
Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
“It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.”
Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.”
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
Source: Collected Works
“I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.”
“To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“Democracy and violence can ill go together.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.”
Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa
“Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.”
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: India of My Dreams
“Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.”
Source: Collected Works
“Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.”
“I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
“The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.”
“The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.”
“He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.”
Source: Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson
“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”
“Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".”