Quotes on Democracy
- Democracy consists of
choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want
to hear. Alan Corenk
- If liberty and equality,
as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best
attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. Aristotle
- The great thing about
democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art
Spander
- Democracy means
government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people
talking. Clement Atlee
- Democracy is the recurrent
suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. EB White
- Democracy is a device
that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
- Democracy substitutes
election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George
Bernard Shaw
- The whole dream of
democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the
bourgeois. Gustave
- Democracy is the theory that
the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. HL
Mencken
- Under democracy one
party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party
is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. HL Mencken
- The idea of an election is
much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in
itself the defining moment. Jeff
Melvoin
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