Monday, 1 September 2014

Quotes on Democracy


  1.  Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. Alan Corenk
  2. 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
  3. The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art Spander
  4. Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Atlee
  5. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. EB White
  6. Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
  7. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
  8. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Gustave
  9. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. HL Mencken
  10. 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
  11. 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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