Democracy Quotes - Page 15

• In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

  Aristotle

  Power, Democracies Have, Majority

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• In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Islamic, Views, Culture

  "Erdogan: 'Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View'". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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• Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Freedom, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.106, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

  Aristotle

  Real, Men, Differences

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2031, Princeton University Press

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• The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Life Is, Saddest

  'Baltimore Evening Sun' 9 December 1929

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• In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

  Chris Patten

  Freedom, Jerk, Voting And Democracy

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• Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

  Jane Bowles

  Voting, Problem, Protest

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• Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Teamwork, Society, Collaboration

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• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Change, Heart, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.192, Vintage

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, Tyrants, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Money, Mean

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.114, Best Books on

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• Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  The Biglow Papers, Second Series, "Ef I a song or two could make" l. 97 (1867)

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• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Non-Violence in Peace and War (1942) vol. 1, ch. 142

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

  Katharine Graham

  Information, Depends

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• One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

  Jacques Chirac

  Doe, Vehicle

  Attributed to Jacques Chirac speaking to Silvio Berlusconi over the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 o'clock news, TF1, March 11, 2007.

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• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  Fisher Ames

  Volcanoes, Way, Eruption

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24

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

  Graham Greene

  Love, Peace, Years

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Patriotic, Practice

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Democracies Have, Majority Rule, Groups

  "Why Hate Monarchs?". mises.org. August 2001.

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• Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

  Michael Novak

  Work, Government, Political

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• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

  William Penn

  Truth, Freedom, Suffering

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

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• El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Voice, Politics

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