Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

• Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "The Scholar in a Republic" by Wendell Phillips. Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, "The Agitator" (1890), p. 581, June 30, 1881.

• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

• Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Mean, Democracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.185

• Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Blessed, Democracy

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.18, London : Chapman and Hall

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