John Stuart Mill Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Adoption, Democracy

• The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Believe, Government

• Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, People, Democracy

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.287, Oxford University Press, USA

• In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Roots, Government, People

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