I leave you the best quotes about democracy from excellent authors, such as Kofi Annan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aristotle and Winston Churchill. In these appointments you can find different opinions, both against and in favor of it, as well as factors that undermine democracy and its importance for the existence of our rights.
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-Democracy is that 51% of the population takes away their rights from the other 49%. -Thomas Jefferson.
-People should not fear their governments. Governments are the ones who should fear their people. -Alan Moore.
-Democracy is not a fragile flower, but it still needs to be cultivated. -Ronald Reagan.
-Democracy works when people claim it as their own. -Bill Moyers.
-Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. -Winston Churchill.
-The vote is stronger than the bullet. -Abraham Lincoln.
-The dream of democracy is to elevate the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity. -Gustave Flaubert.
-Democracy means managing a government through discussion, but it is only effective if you can make people stop talking. -Clement Atlee.
-Democracy is the art of thinking independently but together. -Alexander Meiklejohn.
-Democracy is a mechanism that guarantees that we will not be governed better than we deserve. -George Bernard Shaw.
-Democracy arose from the thought that if men are equal in any aspect, then they are completely equal. -Aristotle.
-Democracy is the theory that says that common people know what they want and deserve to have it. -HL Mencken.
-Democracy is when the indigent, and not the people of power, are the rulers. -Aristotle.
-The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. -HL Mencken.
-Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. -Atifete Jahjaga.
-Democracy is that they allow us to vote for the candidate we least dislike. -Robert Byrne.
-Democracy is like a toy horse: it won't get you anywhere unless you use your own legs. -Herbert Samuel.
-Democracy becomes a government of thugs moderated by the editors. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-When it is threatened, the first thing that a democracy contributes is democracy. -Mignon McLaughlin.
-Education is a human right with immense power to transform. In its foundations lie the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. -Kofi Annan.
-Democracy is alive, and like any other living being either flourishes and grows, or perishes and dies. There are no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death. -Saul Alisnky.
-Democracy is the opportunity to become the slave of all. -Karl Kraus.
-Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. -Harry Emerson Fosdick.
-Every election is determined by the number of people who show up to vote. -Larry Sabato.
-Democracy must be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what they will eat for dinner. -James Bovard.
-The elections belong to the people. It is your decision. If they decide to turn their backs on the fire and burn their butt, then they will simply have to sit on their blisters. -Abraham Lincoln.
-The fact that the peasant becomes king does not make a kingdom democratic. -Woodrow Wilson.
-In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. -Anatole France.
-Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists all the strength of the wise will of men. -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-The vote is the most powerful instrument ever conceived by man to overturn injustice and destroy the terrible walls that imprison men. -Lyndon B. Johnson.
-People's misinformation is one of the best guarantees for the continuation of a democracy. -Harry F. Banks.
-Anarchism is democracy taken seriously. -Edward Abbey.
-Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they have told you what you think is what you want to hear. -Alan Coren.
-Democracy never lasts. She soon wears out, tires, and commits suicide. There has never been a democracy that has not committed suicide. -John Adams.
- I confess that I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably stupid and therefore incomparably funny. -HL Mencken.
-A great democracy does not make voting more difficult than it makes buying an assault rifle. -Bill Clinton.
-If freedom and equality are mainly found in democracy, they will be better achieved when all people share the government to the maximum. -Aristotle.
-I believe in democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. -Woodrow Wilson.
-Half of American people have never read a newspaper. And half have never voted for a president. One hopes it is the same half. -Gore Vidal.
-Democracy is the recurring suspicion that more than half of the people are correct more than half of the time. -EB White.
-If we want a democratic society, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. -Bayard Rustin.
-Democracy replaces the election by the many incompetent for the appointment of the few corrupt. -George Bernard Shaw.
-If we cannot put our values in our vote, then we do not have democracy. -Jill Stein.
-Let people think that they govern and will be governed. -William Penn.
-Democracy is worth dying for, because it is the most honorable form of government devised by man. -Ronald Reagan.
-The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -Winston Churchill.
-In a society passively governed by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. -Matt Taibbi.
-The elections not only remind us of rights, but also of the responsibilities of citizens in democracy. -Robert Kennedy.
-The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that, although people must cooperate, the primary function of democracy is to develop each individual to their full potential. -Edwin H. Land.
-If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it. -Mark Twain.
-Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will be at fault. -Laurence J. Peter.
-The many are more incorruptible than the few; it is like when more water is less easily corrupted than just a little. -Aristotle.
-No man is good enough to rule another without his consent. -Abraham Lincoln.
-Democracy gives the right to all men to become their own oppressor. -James Russell Lowell.
-I'm tired of hearing that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are the ones who must make it work. -Alexander Woollcott.
-Democracy does not mean "I am as good as you", but "you are as good as me." -Theodore Parker.
-Protesting above the law is not abandoning democracy; it is absolutely essential to its existence. -Howard Zinn.
-The people are the ones that control the government, not the government that controls the people. -Winston Churchill.
-Democracy does not guarantee equal conditions, it only guarantees equal opportunities. -Irving Kristol.
-Democracy, as well as freedom, justice and other political and social rights, are not “given”, they are won through courage, mediation and sacrifice. -Aung San Suu Kyi.
- The dictatorship naturally arises from a democracy. The gravest form of tyranny arises from the most extreme freedom. -Plato.
-It is not the vote that constitutes a democracy, but the vote count. -Tom Stoppard.
-The presidents are selected, they are not elected. -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Is there a record in history in which the majority was correct? -Robert A. Heinlein.
-Most are never right. Who is in greater proportion, the stupid or the intelligent? -Henrik Ibsen.
-The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, we have chaos. -Meles Zenawi.
-A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are not defined; you discover how much you can do by traveling in a straight line until you are stopped. -Norman Mailer.
-Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. -HL Mencken.
-The capacity of the man of justice makes democracy possible, but the inclination of a man to injustice makes democracy necessary. -Reinhold Niebuhr.
-Democracy is the art of operating the circus from the monkey cage. -H. L Mencken.
-A great democracy must be progressive, or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. -Theodore Roosevelt.
-It is in democracy to favor equality. -Christian Nestell Bovee.
-If there was a nation of gods, they would rule themselves democratically. A government so perfect that it is not fit for humans. -Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
-Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and which imparts a kind of equality between equals and unequals. -Plato.
-Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity. -Naomi Klein.
-Exercise the right to vote is essential for our democracy. -Eric Schneiderman.
-Democracy is a system that gives people the opportunity to choose their own rascals. -Doug Larson.
-Democracy is not a synonym for justice or freedom. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual. -Terry Goodkind.
-Democracy is the way to socialism. -Karl Marx.
-The death of democracy will not be due to a sudden murder. It will be a slow extinction through apathy, indifference and malnutrition. -Robert Hutchins.
-Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can grow up to be vice president. -Johnny Carson.
-Democracy implies being governed by the uneducated, while the aristocracy means being governed by the poorly educated. -GK Chesterton.
-Voting is the only way to make a change in a democracy. -Christine Todd Whitman.
-In a democracy, every common citizen is a king, but a king in a constitutional democracy is only a monarch who formally decides, whose function is simply to approve the measures proposed by an executive administration. - Slavoj Zizek.
-Our democracy is only a name. We vote, and what does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of true autocrats, although not declared. We choose between so and so and zutano. -Helen Keller.
-In a democracy, one party always dedicates its main efforts to trying to prove that the other party is not in a position to govern, and both are generally successful and correct. -HL Mencken.
-To make democracy work, we must become a nation of participants, not simply be observers. Who does not vote does not have the right to complain. -Louis L'Amour.
-Have you ever stopped to consider the amount of blood shed, tears shed, the level of pain and anguish endured, and the number of noble men and women lost in battle so that we have an opinion when ruling our country? -Richelle E. Goodrich.
-Democracy cannot work unless those who express their choice are prepared to do so wisely. The true safeguard of education is, therefore, education. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-Let us never forget that the government is us and is not an external power over us. The ultimate rulers of democracy are not the president, senators, congressmen, and government officials, but the voters of this country. -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
-Although our interests as citizens differ, each one is an artery of the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each one is important for the health of democracy. -Bill Moyers.
-The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you first vote and then follow orders; and in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. -Charles Bukowski.
-Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man tends more to be honest than an intelligent man, and our politicians take advantage of this by pretending to be more stupid than nature made them. -Bertrand Russell.
-A democracy is a volcano that hides the fervid elements of its own destruction. These will erupt and cause desolation in your path. -Fisher Ames.
-The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and spirited debate, but they endure when people of all backgrounds and beliefs find a way to put the smallest differences aside in the service of a greater purpose. -Barack Obama.