The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Democracy Quotes
In the true democracy of India the unit is the village… True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below by the people of every village.
The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people.
Surely, timidity has no place in democracy, where people in general believe in and want a particular thing. Their representatives have but to give shape to their demand and make it feasible. A favorable mental attitude of the multitude has been found to go a long way in winning battles.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Democracy and violence can ill go together. The states that are today nominally democratic have either to become frankly totalitarian or, if they are to become truly democratic, they must become courageously nonviolent. It is a blasphemy to say that nonviolence can only be practiced by individuals and never by nations which are composed of […]
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
